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Service Life Prediction of Polymers and Plastics Exposed to Outdoor Weathering.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Elsevier Science Ltd,
2017.
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| Colección: | PDL handbook series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Contributors; Biographies; Preface; Chapter 1
- Service Life Prediction: Why Is This so Hard?; Introduction; The SLP process; Step 1. Identification and Quantification of the Use Conditions; Step 2. Determining the Response of Materials to the Environmental Variables; Spectral Power Distribution; Irradiance; Temperature; Humidity; Dew; Rain; Step 3. Establishment of Rational Test Conditions; Translation to engineering practice; The question of correlation; Some technical challenges; Characterization of Use Environments
- Methods for Multivariable TestingEfficient Mechanical Property Estimation; Finding Measurable Changes That Underlie Failure Mechanisms; Conclusions; References; Chapter 2
- Weathering Standards and Service Life Prediction of Polymers: How Can We Bridge the Gap?; Introduction; Standards; Standards That are Used to Physically Produce a Material, Part, Product, or Structure; Standards That Govern How We Communicate and Interact With the World; Standards That Define Operating Procedures; Weathering tests; Weathering Test Standards; Roles of Weathering Tests; Pass/Fail Tests for Material Screening
- Comparative TestsService Life Estimations or Predictions; The limitations of standards; Problems With Legacy Standards; Misapplication of Good Standards: Right Standard, Wrong Material; Misapplication of Good Standards: Evolving Degradation Mechanisms; Effective weathering standards development; The Arwood Study on Wood Coatings; Acid Etch of Automotive Clear Coats; The New State of the Art in Automotive Xenon Arc Weathering Standards; A proposal to accelerate the evolution of weathering standards; Conclusions; References
- Chapter 3
- Experimental and Derived Approaches to Service Life Prediction ModelsIntroduction; Discussion: Two Approaches; Characteristics of "Experimental" Approach; Characteristics of "Derived" Approach; Synergistic Approaches Using Both "Derived" and "Experimental" Characteristics; Examples of "Experimental" Approaches at the SLP Symposium Over the Years; Examples of "Derived" Approaches at the SLP Symposium Over the Years; Examples Using Both "Experimental" and "Derived" Approaches Synergistically; Experiment: Detailed Example of a Simple "Experimental" Approach; Experiment Introduction
- Outdoor Reference Environment WeatheringOutdoor Reference Exposure Data; Meteorological and Irradiation Data; Artificial Laboratory Weathering; Xenon Arc Exposure Data; Construction of Model Functions and Predictive Equations; Inputting Environmental Characteristic Data Measured During Outdoor Exposures Into the Predictive Model; Conditioning Environmental Characteristic Data for Input Into Model; Solving the Empirical Model for Each Time Increment; Weighting (Proportioning) Incremental Degradation Contributions and Summing; Summing to Obtain the Final Model Estimate; Validating the Model