Long-term stiffness prediction of particle filled polymers by dynamic mechanical analysis: Frequency sweep versus creep method

Dynamic Mechanical Analysis of Polymers

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Mechanical Behavior of Filled Thermoplastic Polymers

Morphology Characterization of Particle Filled Polymers by Tomographic Methods

Several polypropylene composites with varying amounts of inorganic particles of different sizes were investigated. In dependence of the particle sizes four different tomographic methods were used to describe the morphology 3-dimensionally. For particle sizes of several micrometers sub-μm X-ray tomography and light optical tomography are suitable whereas for smaller particle sizes scanning elect...

prediction of msw long-term settlement induced by mechanical and decomposition-based compressions

long-term settlement of msw landfills is a complex process, which is explained by the following two mechanisms: (1) the mechanical long-term compression of degradable organic solids (dos) and un-degradable organic solids (udos); and (2) the decomposition-based compression of the dos. based on these two distinct settlement mechanisms, in this study, the authors propose a new estimation model to ...

Dynamic Mechanical Analysis of Fly Ash Filled Polyurea Elastomer

In this work, the material properties of a series of fly ash/polyurea composites were studied. Dynamic mechanical analysis was conducted to study the effect of the fly ash volume fraction on the composite’s mechanical properties, i.e., on the material’s frequencyand temperature-dependent storage and loss moduli. It was found that the storage and loss moduli of the composite both increase as the...