Symposium Y—Long-Term Performance Issues in Polymers - Chemistry and Physics
Chairs
Sindee L. Simon, University of Pittsburgh
Greg B. McKenna, NIST
Harvey E. Bair, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Symposium Support
- 3M
- American Chemical Society
- General Electric
*Invited Paper
SESSION Y1: POLYOLEFIN DEGRADATION:
CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Chair: Maureen C. Chan
Tuesday Morning, November 28
Berkeley (S)
9:00 A.M. *Y1.1
LONG-TERM THERMAL STABILITY OF POLYOLEFINS, Francois L. Gugumus, Ciba-Geigy AG,
Basel, Switzerland.
9:45 A.M. Y1.2
COOPERATIVE INTERACTIONS IN STABILIZER COMBINATIONS IN POLYMER, Jan
Pospísil, Stanislav Nespurek, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry,
Prague, Czech; Wolf Habicher and Kerstin Scheim, Technical University, Dresden,
Germany.
10:00 A.M. Y1.3
THE INFLUENCE OF COMPLEX STABILIZER SYSTEMS ON THE FAILURE CRITERION AND
SERVICE LIFETIME PREDICTIONS UPON THERMAL AGING OF POLOLEFINS, Erich Kamer and
Hans Zweifel, Ciba-Geigy Ltd., Additives Division, Basle, Switzerland.
10:15 A.M. BREAK
10:45 A.M. Y1.4
PHOTO- AND THERMO-OXIDATIVE DEGRADATION OF POLYETHYLENE-POLYPROPYLENE BLENDS:
COMPARISON OF OXIDATION PRODUCTS, R.P. Singh and S. Sivaram, National Chemical
Laboratory, Division of Polymer Chemistry, Pune, India.
11:00 A.M. Y1.5
THE ROLE OF STERILIZATION AND AGING ENVIRONMENT ON THE STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF
UHMWPE, M. Goldman, R. Ranganathan, R. Gronsky and L. Pruitt, University of
California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
11:15 A.M. Y1.6
IN VIVO AND IN VITRO OXIDATION OF UHMWPE INDUCED BY -IRRADIATION, Orhun K.
Muratoglu, John Elder, William H. Harris and Murali Jasty, Massachusetts
General Hospital, Orthopedic Biomechanics Laboratory, Boston, MA.
11:30 A.M. Y1.7
OXIDATION IN UHMWPE ARTICULAR IMPLANTS FOLLOWING GAMMA-STERILIZATION:
IMPLICATIONS FOR EVALUATING LONG-TERM PERFORMANCE, V. Premnath, E.W. Merrill,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Cambridge, MA; M. Jasty and W.H. Harris, Massachusetts General Hospital,
Orthopedic Biomechanics Laboratory, Boston, MA.
11:45 A.M. Y1.8
POST-IRRADIATION AGING EFFECTS ON ULTRA HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE USED
IN ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANTS: A SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING STUDY, A. Bellare,
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Boston, MA; and
R.E. Cohen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical
Engineering, Cambridge, MA.
SESSION Y2: POLYMER SOLVENT AND SOLUTE DYNAMICS
Chair: Harvey E. Bair
Tuesday Afternoon, November 28
Berkeley (S)
1:30 P.M. *Y2.1
PHYSICAL LOSS OF STABILIZING ADDITIVES FROM POLYMERS, Norman C. Billingham,
University of Sussex, School of Chemistry, Brighton, United Kingdom.
2:15 P.M. *Y2.2
CONTINUUM THERMODYNAMICS AND TRANSPORT THEORY FOR SOLVENT DIFFUSION IN
POLYMERS, Steve Lustig, E. I. duPont de Nemours & Company, Inc., Central
Research, Wilmington, DE.
3:00 P.M. BREAK
3:30 P.M. Y2.3
PLATICIZATION AND EMBRITTLEMENT OF NYLON 6 BY ABSORPTION AND DEHYDRATION OF
AQUEOUS CHLORIDE SOLUTIONS, Hong Li and J.A. Donovan, University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amherst, MA.
3:45 P.M. Y2.4
INTERFACE EFFECTS ON MOISTURE ABSORPTION IN THIN POLYIMIDE FILMS ON A SILICON
SUBSTRATE, N.C. Beck Tan, W.E. Wallace, W.-L. Wu and G.T. Davis, National
Institutes of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD.
4:00 P.M. Y2.5
MECHANICS AND TRANSPORT IN PARTICULAR POLYMER-MATRIX COMPOSITES SUBJECT TO
WATER DEGRADATION, A. Lekatou, S.E. Faidi, D. Ghidaoui, S.B. Lyon and R. C.
Newman, UMIST, Corrosion and Protection Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom.
4:15 P.M. Y2.6
TRANSPORT OF AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS THROUGH BLACK LOADED NATURAL RUBBER
VULCANIZATES, G. Unnikrishnan and Sabu Thomas, Mahatma Gandhi University,
School of Chemical Sciences, Kerala, India.
4:30 P.M. Y2.7
STRESS-CRACKING AND GASES PENETRABILITY OF HOLLOW MICROSPHERES FROM
POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE, V.S. Bushuev, V.M. Dorogotovtsev and Yu. A.
Merkuliev, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia.
SESSION Y3: VISCOELASTICITY AND
PHYSICAL AGING OF POLYMERS
Chair: Gregory B. McKenna
Wednesday Morning, November 29
Berkeley (S)
8:30 A.M. *Y3.1
PHYSICAL AGING, Ian Hodge,
9:15 A.M. *Y3.2
NONLINEAR VISCOELASTIC RELAXATIONS IN THE GLASS TRANSITION REGION, James M.
Caruthers, Purdue University, School of Chemical Engineering, West Lafayette,
IN.
10:00 A.M. BREAK
10:30 A.M. Y3.3
PHYSICAL AGING OF POLYETHERIMIDE, S.L. Simon, D.J. Plazek, P.C. Su, E.T.
McGregor, University of Pittsburgh, School of Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA; and
I. Echeverria, UNED, Department of Fisica Fundamental, Madrid, Spain.
10:45 A.M. Y3.4
EFFECT OF CROSSLINK DENSITY DISTRIBUTION ON THE VISCOELASTIC RESPONSES OF
PHYSICALLY AGED EPOXY GLASSES, Yi-Tong Wang and Andre Lee, Michigan State
University, Department of Materials Science and Mechanics, East Lansing, MI.
11:00 A.M. Y3.5
OBSERVATION OF AN ISOCHORIC GLASS TRANSITION, Dina M. Colucci, Gregory B.
McKenna, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD; and
Andre Lee, Michigan State University, Department of Materials Science and
Engineering, East Lansing, MI.
11:15 A.M. Y3.6
TIME-TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR OF SUBSTITUTED POLY(PARAPHENYLENES),
Derrick Dean, Mark Husband, Materials Directorate of Wright Laboratory,
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; and Mark Trimmer, Maxdem Inc., San Dimas, CA.
11:30 A.M. Y3.7
INFLUENCE OF THE CRYSTALLINITY RATE ON THE KINETICS OF AGING OF SEMICRYSTALLINE
POLYMER, J. Grenet, J.M. Saiter and M. Boukined, University of Rouen, LECAP
Laboratory, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France.
11:45 A.M. Y3.8
TIME-TEMPERATURE AND TIME-AGING TIME SUPERPOSITION IN POLYMERS AT LARGE
DEFORMATIONS BELOW THEIR GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURES, Paul C. O'Connell and
Gregory B. McKenna, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD. SESSION Y4: MICROSCOPIC
BEHAVIOR/
DIMENSIONAL STABILITY OF POLYMERS
Chair: Joy P. Dunkers
Wednesday Afternoon, November 29
Berkeley (S)
1:30 P.M. *Y4.1
RATIONAL PREDICTION OF LONG-TERM PERFORMANCE OF SECOND-ORDER NONLINEAR OPTICAL
POLYMERS: CONNECTIONS TO POLYMER RELAXATION BEHAVIOR, John M. Torkelson, Ali
Dhinojwala, Jacob C. Hooker and Kenneth E. Hamilton, Northwestern University,
Department of Chemical Engineering, Evanston, IL.
2:15 P.M. Y4.2
ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS OF POLYMER THIN
FILMS ON METAL SUBSTRATES AS A NANOMETER SCALE PROBE OF WEAR, J.T. Dickinson,
K.H. Hipps and S.C. Langford, Washington State University, Department of
Physics, Pullman, WA.
2:30 P.M. Y4.3
POSITRON ANNIHILATION AND GAS PERMEATION STUDIES OF POLYMERS: TIME AND PRESSURE
EFFECTS, X. Hong, J.-P. Yuan, J. Liu and Y.C. Jean, University of
Missouri-Kansas City, Department of Chemistry, Kansas City, MO.
2:45 P.M. Y4.4
BROWNIAN MOTION SIMULATION OF CHAIN PULLOUT, Galen T. Pickett and Anna C.
Balazs, University of Pittsburgh, Materials Science and Engineering Department,
Pittsburgh, PA.
3:00 P.M. Y4.5
MOLECULAR MODELS OF SLIPPAGE FOR STRAINED MACROMOLECULES IN AN ORIENTED
CRYSTALLINE POLYMER, Ulmas Gafurov, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tashkent,
Uzbekistan.
3:15 P.M. BREAK
3:45 P.M. *Y4.6
RESIDUAL STRESSES AND THE DIMENSIONAL STABILITY OF INJECTION MOLDED
THERMOPLASTICS PARTS, Vijay K. Stokes, GE Corporate Research and Development,
Schenectady, NY.
4:30 P.M. Y4.7
THE EFFECT OF VISCOELASTIC AND AGE DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR ON SHAPE CHANGES IN A
POLYMERIC PART SUBJECTED TO NON-UNIFORM COOLING, Martin Y.M. Chiang and Gregory
B. McKenna, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Polymers Division,
Gaithersburg, MD.
4:45 P.M. Y4.8
TEMPERATURE AND TIME DEPENDENT VISCOSITY OF POLYMER ADHESIVES IN MULTILAYER
FILM STRUCTURES, Peter Y. Wong, Cynthia G. Madras and Ioannis N. Miaoulis,
Tufts University, Thermal Analysis of Materials, Processing Laboratory,
Mechanical Engineering Department, Medford, MA.
5:00 P.M. Y4.9
A COMBINED VISCOELASTIC-PIEZOELECTRIC CONSTITUTIVE MODEL OF PVDF MATERIALS FOR
VIBRATION CONTROL OF MECHANICAL SYSTEMS, A.M. Vinogradov and R.J. Conant,
Montana State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bozeman, MT.
SESSION Y5: CHEMICAL DEGRADATION OF POLYMERS
Chair: Hans Zweifel
Thursday Morning, November 30
Berkeley (S)
8:30 A.M. *Y5.1
PROCESSES AFFECTING THE LONG-TERM PERFORMANCE OF POLYMERS, Jan Pospísil,
Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech
Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
9:15 A.M. Y5.2
THERMAL STABILITY IN POLYOLEFIN BLENDS, C. Thaumaturgo and E.E. C. Monteiro,
Instituto Militar de Engenharia (IME), Departamento de Materials, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil.
9:30 A.M. Y5.3
THERMAL STABILITY OF A POLYCYANURATE THERMOSETTING SYSTEM, R.E. Zacharia and
S.L. Simon, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Pittsburgh, PA.
9:45 A.M. Y5.4
DEGRADATION OF ARYL POLYMERS BY NO2, Bollepalli Srinivas, Charles E. Hoyle,
University of Southern Mississippi, Department of Polymer Science, Hattiesburg,
MS; and Gordon W. Selling, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc., Benger
Laboratory, Waynesboro, VA.
10:00 A.M. BREAK
10:30 A.M. Y5.5
PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL AGING OF PMR-15 POLYIMIDE RESIN AT 600deg.F, Gary D.
Roberts and John E. Kamvouris, NASA Lewis Research Center, Materials Division,
Cleveland, OH.
11:45 A.M. Y5.6
MICROCHARACTERIZATION OF THERMAL DEGRADATION MECHANISMS IN POLYMER COMPOSITE
SYSTEMS WITH INFRARED SYNCHROTRON RADIATION, R.J. Meilunas and G.L. Carr,
Northrop Grumman Corporation, Bethpage, NY.
11:00 A.M. Y5.7
USING CERAMIC AND METALLIC BARRIER COATINGS TO PROTECT POLYMER COMPOSITES AT
HIGH TEMPERATURES, D.R. Harding, J.K. Sutter, NASA Lewis Research Center,
Cleveland, OH; and R.D. Webb, R.D. Webb Company, Wellesley, MA.
11:15 A.M. Y5.8
INFLUENCE OF UREA DERIVATIVE ADDITIVES ON THE THERMAL DEGRADATION OF
POLYVINYLCHLORIDE MATERIALS, B. Saidov, U. Gafurov, L. Kabisova and Z.
Fazilova, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
11:30 A.M. Y5.9
THE STRUCTURAL STUDY OF DECOMPOSITION PRODUCTS OF COBALT CARBONYL
BLOCK-COPOLYMER II-COMPLEXES, V.G. Vlasenko, Ph.M. Ovsjannikov, and A.V.
Kozinkin, Institute of Physics, Rostov State University, Rostov-on-Don,
Russia.
SESSION Y6: FRACTURE AND FATIGUE OF POLYMERS
Chair: Lisa Pruitt
Thursday Afternoon, November 30
Berkeley (S)
1:30 P.M. *Y6.1
STRUCTURAL BASIS FOR FATIGUE FAILURE INITIATION IN POLYCARBONATE, Albert F.
Yee, Hristo A. Hristov and David W. Gidley, University of Michigan, Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Ann Harbor, MI.
2:15 P.M. Y6.2
FAILURE ANALYSIS OF CRACKED POLYCARBONATE CONNECTORS, H.E. Bair and A.J.
Muller, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ; R.G. Drach, AT&T Bell
Laboratories, Omaha, NB; J.J. Blee and E.D. Nelson, AT&T Bell Laboratories,
Norcross, GA.
2:30 P.M. Y6.3
CRAZING IN POLYSTYRENE AND STYRENE-ACRYLONITRILE COPOLYMER: DOES PHYSICAL AGING
HAVE AN EFFECT?, Gloria M. Gusler and Gregory B. McKenna, National Institutes
of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD.
2:45 P.M. Y6.4
FATIGUE FAILURE INITIATION IN PC/PS POLYMER BLENDS, Kunitoshi Mimura, Hristo A.
Hristov and Albert F. Yee, University of Michigan, Department of Materials
Science and Engineering, Ann Harbor, MI.
3:00 P.M. BREAK
3:30 P.M. *Y6.5
FATIGUE BEHAVIOR OF FIBER-REINFORCED NYRON 66, Iko Narisawa, Yamagata
University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonezawa, Japan;
and Atsushi Kato, Nissan Motor Company Ltd., Yokosuka, Japan.
4:00 P.M. Y6.6
A FRACTURE CRITERION TO PREDICT CREEP RUPTURE, J. Raghavan, University of
Delaware, Center for Composite Materials, Newark, DE.
4:15 P.M. Y6.7
CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOR AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF A NYLON -6, -6/6 AND -12
TER-POLYAMIDE, Charles R. Davis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown,
NY.
4:30 P.M. Y6.8
THE LIFETIME OF THE ANTIPLASTICIZED POLYMER SYSTEMS, Anna I. Suvorova and
Svetlana A. Kamenskaja, Ural State University, Chemical Department,
Ekaterinburg, Russia.
4:45 P.M. Y6.9
STRENGTH AND STRESS RELAXATION AS ANALYTICALLY DESCRIBED FOR ORIENTED POLYMER
FIBERS IN WIDE RANGES OF TIME AND TEMPERATURE, Sergei V. Bronnikov, Institute
of Macromolecular Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg,
Russia.
SESSION Y7: WEATHERABILITY AND
ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
Chair: Andre Lee
Friday Morning, December 1
Berkeley (S)
8:30 A.M. *Y7.1
PREDICTING IN-SERVICE WEATHERABILITY PERFORMANCE OF PLASTICS AND COATINGS,
David R. Bauer, Ford Motor Company, Research Laboratory, Dearborn, MI.
9:15 A.M. Y7.2
DISCOLORATION FACTORS OF EVA ENCAPSULANTS AND STABILIZING EFFECTS OF
UV-FILTERING GLASS AND GAS-PERMEABLE POLYMER SUPERSTRATES FOR PV MODULES, F.J.
Pern, National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Golden, CO.
9:30 A.M. Y7.3
THE EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL, A.H. Wagner,
9:45 A.M. Y7.4
EFFECT OF ACCELERATED ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS ON DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF UV CURED
EPOXY RESIN FILMS, Jan Obrzut and John Lauffer, IBM Corporation, Endicott,
NY.
10:00 A.M. BREAK
10:30 A.M. Y7.5
NEAR INFRARED MICROSCOPY AND THE SINGLE FIBER FRAGMENTATION TEST AS
COMPLEMENTARY TECHNIQUES FOR THE STUDY OF POLYMER COMPOSITE DURABILITY, Joy P.
Dunkers and Kenneth S. Macturk, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Gaithersburg, MD.
10:45 A.M. Y7.6
DURABILITY ISSUES IN GLASS/POLYISOCYANURATE COMPOSITES WHEN EXPOSED TO
AUTOMOTIVE FLUIDS, Walter G. McDonough, Carl R. Schultheisz, Joy P. Dunkers and
Gale A. Holmes, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Polymers
Division, Gaithersburg, MD.
11:00 A.M. Y7.7
ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS CRACK INITIATION IN POLYCARBONATE, J.C. Arnold, University
of Swansea, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Swansea, United Kingdom.
11:15 A.M. Y7.8
HDPE BLENDS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS CRACKING RESISTANCE, Charlotte H.
Chen-Tsai and John E. Cornetta, Aluminum Company of America, Alcoa Center,
PA.
11:30 A.M. Y7.9
THE INFLUENCE OF CROSSLINKING IN THE ESC OF ACRYLIC POLYMERS, J.C. Arnold, D.H.
Isaac and J. Li, University of Swansea, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Swansea, United Kingdom.
11:45 A.M. Y7.10
SHORT-TERM TEST TO PREDICT ATMOSPHEAR CORROSION PROTECTIVE PROPERTIES OF
ORGANOSILICATE POLYMERIC COATINGS (OSPC), Larisa N. Krasil'nikova and Svetlana
V. Tchouppina, Russian Academy of Sciences, Silicate Chemistry Department, St.
Petersburg, Russia.
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