Testing physical properties, film

The cured polymer samples used for physical property testing were prepared by photocuring 12 mil thick sheets of degassed and photosensitized monomer mixtures, using a mold composed of glass plates lined with polyester film and separated by a double thickness of vinyl electrical tape. A GE sunlamp was used for Illumination, and Darocure 1173 (E. Merck) was used as the photoinitiator. Hydrocarbon monomers were used as received from the manufacturers. All the vinyl group-containing compounds were stored at -5°C until use. 

Tarvainen et al. (2002) studied the film-forming ability of starch acetate (DS 2.8) and the effect of commotfly used plasticizers on the physical properties of starch acetate films. The properties were compared with ethylcellulose films. Mechanical studies, water vapor and drug permeability tests, and thermal analysis by differential scarming calorimetry (DSC) were used to characterize the film-forming ability of starch acetate and efficiency of tested plasticizers. Starch acetate films were foimd to be tougher and stronger than ethylcellulose films at the same plasticizer concentration. Also, in most cases, the water vapor permeability of starch acetate... 

Since it is difficult to control processes for making plastic films in order to limit variability in their physical properties to one percent or less we find that material inhomogeneity is an obstacle to the development of better SRM s. It is also difficult to use such materials as transfer standards because their characteristics often drift with time and test specimens often do not tolerate abuse suffered during the measuring process. 

The first two types of interaction are certainly physical adsorption the fourth is certainly chemisorption the third, which is a postulated mechanism whose actual occurrence has not yet been adequately demonstrated, exists in a twilight zone that defies classification as either physical or chemical adsorption. Previous papers of this series have not been concerned with the source of the adsorptive potential, but have postulated only that the adsorbed film be mobile their considerations could apply, therefore, to all adsorption situations other than No. 4. The present paper is devoted to a consideration of the adsorptive potential arising from 1 and 2—that is, physical adsorption properly so called. This general topic has been discussed by de Boer (5) for a number of specific cases the theory and techniques that we have developed enable us to derive from experimental data a quantity, Pads, the depth of the adsorptive potential well, which can also be calculated a priori from physical properties of the system. We are therefore able to compare theory and observation and so have an independent test of conclusions reached in previous papers. 

As in the case of corrosion failures, the sequence of steps involved in analyzing wear failures are initial examination of the failed component including service conditions to establish the mode or combination of modes of wear failure, metallographic examination to check if the microstructure of the worn part met the specification, both in the base material and in the hardened case or applied surface coatings, existence of localized phase transformations, shear or cold worked surfaces, macroscopic and microscopic hardness testing to determine the proper heat treatment, X-ray and electron diffraction analysis to determine the composition of abrasives, wear debris, surface elements and microstructural features such as retained austenite, chemical analysis of wear debris surface films and physical properties such as viscosity and infrared spectral determination of the integrity of lubricants and abrasive characteristics of soils or minerals in the cases of wear failures of tillage tools. 

Water in film boiling is normal in that it does not give unusual test values. The physical properties for which water is most different from common liquids are the latent heat of vaporization, heat capacity, and... 

The oriented film specimens were mounted on aluminum frames and exposed on an Atlas Weather-Ometer, Model 65WR. An 18 minute spray cycle together with an 102 minute cycle at 55% relative humidity and approximately 65°C was used. At regular intervals, the test specimens were removed from exposure and their tensile strength measured on an Instron Model 1102. A decrease in tensile strength, expressed as tenacity, over the tensile strength of the same formulation before exposure, is a measure of the deterioration of the physical properties of the polymer. "Failure" in this test is defined as a loss of 50% or more of the initial sample tenacity. 

Physical test data support the IR findings. Tensile strength, elongation and equilibrium moduli are tabulated in Table VI. All of the physical properties examined are indicators of crosslink density and can reflect differences in cure. Table VI shows that these physical properties are essentially equivalent for stabilized and unstabilized films. 

Physical property measurement of thick section-UV cured epoxy-slloxane/alcohol blends were difficult to obtain because many of the cured films (like unmodified epoxyslllcones) proved too weak and brittle to test. Selected results are depicted in Table IX for 20 mil films UV cured with 0.5 wt%... 

The polymer concentration in the film-forming solution has influence on the physical properties (porosity) of the coatings and the release rate of nutrients from coated granules. Thus for polysulfone-coated NPK fertilizer with coating having 38.5% porosity (prepared from 13.5% polymer solution) 100% of NH4 was released after 5 h test, whereas only 19.0% of NH4 was released after 5 h for the coating with 11% porosity [216]. 

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