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May 6–11, 2007 Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Volume 1 of 5
Society of Plastics Engineers
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOLUME 1
MODELING OF A THIN-WALLED FILAMENT WOUND TUBING...................................................... 1Coffey, Austin; Óbrádaigh, C. M.; Gately, Alan
DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPOSITE THERMAL BARRIER COATING ............................................ 7Lynch, Jennifer; Nosker, Thomas; Ondre, David; Mazar, Mark; Nosker, Patrick
MICROMECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF INTERFACIAL SHEAR STRENGTH OF ARAMID FIBRE REINFORCED THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS............................................... 12
Coffey, Austin
POLYURETHANE-CARBON NANOFIBER COMPOSITES FOR SHAPE MEMORY EFFECTS ............................................................................................................................................ 18
Jimenez, Guillermo; Jana, Sadhan
EFFECT OF THERMAL CONDUCTIVE FILLERS AND HARDNESS THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SILICONE ELASTOMERS ............................................................................... 23
Severance, Chris
INTERFACIAL ADHESION BETWEEN HYDROXYAPATITE AND POLY(E-CAPROLACTONE) AND THEIR ELECTROSPUN COMPOSITE TOUGHNESS............................. 27
Wong, Shing-Chung; Baji, Avinash
EFFICIENCY OF GRAPHITE ADDITIVES ON FRICTION AND WEAR PROPERTIES OF SINTERED POLYIMIDE ............................................................................................................... 32
Samyn, Pieter; Quintelier, Jan; Schoukens, Gustaaf
MELT BLENDING GRAPHITE INTO POLY(ETHYLENE-2,6-NAPHTHALATE) .............................. 37Kim, Hyunwoo; Macosko, Christopher
EFFECT OF TWO COMPATIBILIZERS HAVING COMONOMER IN POLYPROPYLENE/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES ............................................................................ 40
Nam, Byeong Uk; Kim, Dong-Won; Kim, Baek-Jin
SCREW ELEMENT CHARACTERIZATION IN AN IN-LINE LFT-D PROCESS ............................... 44Englich, Sascha; Chandrashekara, Shanthakumar; Padmanabhan, Babu
THERMAL STABILITY AND RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF MULTIWALL CARBON NANOTUBE REINFORCED THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES....................................................................................................... 49
Park, Sang Ki; Kim, Seong Hun; Hwang, Jin Taek
REINFORCING VIRGIN, REPROCESSED OR RECYCLED POLYPROPYLENE WITH AGAVE FIBER AND A POLYMERIC COUPLING AGENT............................................................... 54
Jasso-Gastinel, Carlos; Sanjuan-Raygoza, Reyes
SHEAR RHEOLOGY OF HIGHLY FILLED POLYMERIC SUSPENSION ........................................ 58Ahn, Youngjoon; Kwon, Hyukrok; Koo, Kee-Kahb; Kim, Hyounsoo; Lee, Jae Wook
NONWETTING LOW FRICTION NYLON 6/ POLYHEDRAL OLIGOMERIC SILSESQUIOXANE (POSS®) HYBRID NANOCOMPOSITES ......................................................... 62
Misra, Rahul; Morgan, Sarah; Fu, Bruce
MULTILAYER COEXTRUSION OF POLYPROPYLENE NANOCOMPOSITE MATERIALS ....................................................................................................................................... 67
Dolgovskij, Michail; Fasulo, Paula D.; Lee, Patrick; Macosko, Christopher W.; Rodgers, William R.
SUPER-CRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE ASSISTED MELT INTERCALATION OF POLYMER LAYERED SILICATE NANOCOMPOSITES ................................................................... 72
Litchfield, David; Nguyen, Quang; Baird, Donald
NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON IONIC LIQUID MODIFIED CLAYS ............................................. 76Xanthos, Marino
MELT INTERCALATION/EXFOLIATION OF POLYSTYRENE--SODIUM-MONTMORILLONITE NANOCOMPOSITES USING SULFONATED POLYSTYRENE IONOMERS COMPATIBILIZERS ...................................................................................................... 81
Weiss, Robert; Bhiwankar, Nikhil
INFLUENCE OF SURFACE ENERGY ON DISPERSION AND FLEXURAL PROPERTIES OF PS/PHOSPHONIUM ORGANOLCAY NANOCOMPOSITES.............................. 85
Kamal, Musa; Uribe Calderon, Jorge
NEW COATING EQUIPMENT TO PRODUCE LONG FIBRE THERMOPLASTIC MATRIX TOWPREGS AT INDUSTRIAL SCALE .............................................................................. 90
Silva, Joao Francisco
ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF NANOPARTICLES ON THE MOLD FILLING IN A VACUUM ASSISTED RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING SYSTEM....................................................... 94
Zhou, Gang; Movva, Siva; Guerra, Dante; Lee, Ly
DESIGN OF THERMOPLASTIC MATRIX HYBRID COMPOSITE GAS CYLINDERS FOR DOMESTIC APPLICATIONS..................................................................................................... 99
Nunes, Joao Pedro
EFFECTS OF RESIDUAL FIBER LENGTH ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF LONG FIBER REINFORCED POLYPROPYLENE FROM VARIOUS PROCESSES ..................... 104
Short, William; Wenzel, Edward
FIBER JAMMING AND FIBER MATRIX SEPARATION DURING PROCESSING OF FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITES. ............................................................................................ 109
Londono-Hurtado, Alejandro; Osswald, Tim
EFFECTS OF MOLDING PROCESS ON RESIDUAL FIBER LENGTH OF LONG FIBER POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITES ..................................................................................... 114
Short, William; Wenzel, Edward
FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIP OF POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES........................................................................................................................ 119
Boo, Woong-Jae; Sun, Luyi; Lee, Seung-Min; Moghbelli, Ehsan; Warren, Graham; Clearfield, Abraham; Sue, Hung-Jue
PROPERTIES OF POLYETHYLENE NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON HIGH THERMAL STABILITY ORGANOCLAYS ....................................................................................... 123
Stoeffler, Karen; Lafleur, Pierre; Denault, Johanne
STRESS-STRAIN BEHAVIOR AND CRYSTALLIZATION DURING UNIAXIAL DRAWN PET/MMT NANOCOMPOSITES ABOVE GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE............................................................................................................................... 128
Zhan-Song, Yin; Huang, Han-Xiong
POLYMER CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES WITH IMPROVED MELT STRENGTH ........................... 133Jayaraman, Krishnamurthy
NANOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ULTRATHIN POLYMERS .............................................. 138Xu, Shanhong; O'Connell, Paul; McKenna, Gregory
EFFECT OF MOISTURE ABSORPTION ON THE PROPERTIES OF CLAY-PP NANOCOMPOSITES........................................................................................................................ 143
Denault, Johanne
UV CURABLE INKJET FORMULATIONS FOR THE EVER EXPANDING REALM OF INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS ........................................................................................................ 148
Edison, Sara
DEVELOPMENTS IN INKJET TECHNOLOGY FOR THE DECORATION AND COATING OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS ....................................................................................... 153
Hudd, Alan
OPTIMIZING PAD PRINTING EFFICIENCY WITH STEPPER MOTOR TECHNOLOGY............... 159Kaverman, John
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOR LASER MARKING OF PLASTICS....................................... 164Sabreen, Scott
ADVANCES IN ADHESION WITH CO2-BASED ATMOSPHERIC PLASMA SURFACE MODIFICATION................................................................................................................................ 169
Wolf, Rory
ROBOTIC UV CURING: A COST EFFECTIVE MEANS OF CURING LARGE, 3-D PLASTIC PARTS.............................................................................................................................. 174
Mills, Paul
ADHESION PROMOTION USING FLAME PLASMA SURFACE TREATMENT........................... 184Digiacomo, Joe
PROCESS CONSIDERATIONS FOR UV CURING OF 3D DECORATED PLASTIC PARTS .............................................................................................................................................. 212
Joesel, Kevin
TECHNIQUES TO DETERMINE RESISTANCE TO SURFACE DAMAGE ON DECORATED PLASTICS................................................................................................................. 217
Jaenecke, Alan
DEVELOPMENT OF A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING DURABLE, BRIGHT METAL APPEARANCE PLASTIC PARTS ................................................................................................... 223
Mills, Paul
THERMAL AND ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY OF CARBON/LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMER COMPOSITES FOR FUEL CELL BIPOLAR PLATES ................................................. 230
Hauser, Rebecca; King, Julia; Keith, Jason; Barton, Rodwick; Miller, Michael
HIGHLY CONDUCTIVE EPOXY COMPOSITES FOR APPLICATION AS BIPOLAR PLATES IN PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFCS) ................................. 235
Du, Ling; Jana, Sadhan
DEVELOPMENT OF SEMI-INTERPENETRATING POLYMER NETWORK ELECTROLYTES OF POLYURETHANE AND POLYSILOXANE .................................................. 240
Wang, Shanshan; Min, Kyonsuku
PATTERNING OF CONDUCTING POLYMERS ON FLEXIBLE AND INSULATING POLYMERIC SUBSTRATES ........................................................................................................... 245
Wei, Ming; Jia, Shen; Somu, Sivasubramanian; Xiong, Xugang; Barry, Carol; Busnaina, Ahmed; Mead, Joey
SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION AND INDUSTRIAL INTEREST OF LASER SURFACE TREATMENT OF HIGH TEMPERATURE THERMOPLASTIC POLYMERS.................................. 250
Ricbourg, Maxime; Habas, Jean-Pierre; Pignolet, Pascal
MAR BEHAVIOR OF THERMOPLASTIC OLEFINS ....................................................................... 255Browning, Robert; Jiang, Han; Moyse, Allan; Sue, Hung-Jue; Lau, Edmund
REACTOR TPO: INNOVATIONS IN LOW TEMPERATURE DUCTILITY AND AT-PRESS DIMENSIONAL CONTROL................................................................................................. 260
Krabbenborg, Frank; Walia, Parvinder; Traugott, Tom
THE YIELDING OF PROPYLENE POLYMERS .............................................................................. 264Frontini, Patricia; Fasce, Laura; Pettarín, Valeria; Marano, Claudia; Rink, Marta
INVESTIGATION OF FRACTURE MECHANISM OF HDPE SUBJECTED TO ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS CRACKING....................................................................................... 269
Choi, Byoung-Ho
CRASH-SIMULATION FOR SHORT-FIBER REINFORCED THERMOPLASTIC PARTS .............................................................................................................................................. 274
Michaeli, Walter; Brinkmann, Markus
A NEW PROCEDURE FOR DIMENSIONING PLASTICS PARTS WITH SIMILAR CONSIDERATION OF TENSILE AND COMPRESSION VALUES ................................................. 279
Michaeli, Walter; Krumpholz, Thorsten; Arping, Tim
THE INFLUENCE OF FIBER-ORIENTATION AND STRESS RATIO ON THE FATIGUE BEHAVIOUR OF SHORT-GLASFIBER-REINFORCED POLYMERS ........................... 284
Guster, Christoph; Pinter, Gerald; Eichlseder, Wilfried; Lang, Reinhold
ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS CRACKING IN POLYCARBONATE - PREDICTION OF THE LONG TERM BEHAVIOR BY THE USE OF SHORT TIME TESTS ....................................... 289
Michaeli, Walter; Henseler, Jan
THE EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON THE MODULUS OF ELASTICITY OF NONLINEAR VISCOELASTIC MATERIALS ................................................................................... 294
Schmachtenberg, Ernst; Dallner, Claus
EFFECT OF SECONDARY PROCESSING CONDITIONS ON MORPHOLOGY OF THERMOPLASTIC OLEFIN BLENDS ............................................................................................. 299
Drewniak, Marta; Flora, Shannon; Thomasson, Tara
THE EFFECT OF INTERFACIAL STRENGTH ON THE LIGHT REFRACTION IN MULTI-STEP PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBER ....................................................................................... 304
Kang, Ho-Jong; Kim, Hyogap
THE EFFECT OF NUCLEATION SPECIFICITY ON THERMAL BEHAVIOUR OF PHOTODEGRADED POLYPROPYLENE........................................................................................ 308
Vychopnova, Jana; Cermák, Roman; Obadal, Martin; Verney, Vincent; Commereu, Sophie
STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF ß-POLYPROPYLENE CAST FILMS ................................. 313Hnidakova, Dana; Cermak, Roman; Chvatalova, Lenka; Vychopnova, Jana; Obadal, Martin
STRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND MECHANICAL PROPERTY CHANGES OF STRETCHED SYNDIOTACTIC POLYSTYRENE FILM................................................................... 318
Hong, Myeong-Ho; White, James
PHASE MORPHOLOGY AND ORIENTATION DEVELOPMENT OF PP/ETHYLENE BUTENE COPOLYMER BLENDS IN MELT PROCESSING........................................................... 323
Yang, Jinhai; White, James
CONTROLLING MORPHOLOGY IN COCONTINUOUS POLYMER BLENDS .............................. 328Bell, Joel; Lopez-Barron, Carlos; Macosko, Christopher
IN-SITU FORMATION OF MICROFIBRILLAR MORPHOLOGY IN POLYMER BLENDS ........................................................................................................................................... 332
Cermak, Roman; Polaskova, Martina; Kalus, Jakub; Vychopnova, Jana; Obadal, Martin
EFFECT OF SCREW TYPE ON DEVELOPMENT OF POLYMER BLEND MORPHOLOGY ALONG AN EXTRUDER DURING COMPOUNDING .......................................... 337
Huang, Han-Xiong; Li, Xiao-Jing
PHASE SEPARATION IN THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMER/POLYCARBONATE BLENDS UNDER SHEAR ........................................................... 342
Lee, Kam-Wa; Kamal, Musa; Chan, Philip
NOVEL SELF-ASSEMBLING MORPHOLOGIES IN MULTICOMPONENT POLYMER BLENDS ........................................................................................................................................... 347
Virgilio, Nick; Marc-Aurèle, Carl; Favis, Basil
MODELING AND SIMULATION OF THE COMPLEX FLOWS IN THE EXTRUSION PROCESS OF PLASTIC PROFILE WITH METAL INSERT ........................................................... 352
Mu, Yue; Guoqun, Zhao
A NON-NEWTONIAN MODEL OF FLOW IN A SPECIAL MIXING ELEMENT REGION OF A MODULAR INTERMESHING COROTATING TWIN SCREW EXTRUDER .......................... 359
Ban, Kyunha; Kim, Eungkyu; White, James
INFLUENCE OF SCREW ELEMENTS ON THE PROCESSING OF PREPARING LDPE-G-MAH BY REACTIVE EXTRUSION.................................................................................... 364
Cao, Bin; Ma, Xiuqing; Fang, Hui; Zhou, Xinhui; Zhu, Linjie
INFLUENCE OF STAGGERING ANGLE OF KNEADING BLOCK ON PHASE MORPHOLOGY OF IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS IN CO-ROTATING EXTRUDER ...................................................................................................................................... 369
Zhou, Xinhui; Ma, Xiuqing; Cao, Bin; Zhu, Linjie
HYBRID FEM/FDM APPROXIMATION FOR SINGLE SCREW EXTRUSION................................ 374Chen, Chia-Hsun; Lin, Kun-Chang; Kuan, Chen-Feng; Kuan, Hsu-Chiang
STUDY ON THE MIXING ABILITY OF DIFFERENT MIXING ELEMENTS IN CO-ROTATING TWIN SCREW EXTRUDER.......................................................................................... 379
Long, Zhibin; Bing, Luo; Shiqiang, Sun
NUMERICAL SIMULATION ON INTERMESHING COUNTER-ROTATING TWIN SCREW EXTRUDER WITH PIN-BARREL ...................................................................................... 384
He, Min; Bing, Luo
AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION INTO SOLIDS FEEDING CHARACTERISTICS OF A SINGLE PIECE BARREL WITH INTEGRAL FEEDPORT DESIGN VS A STANDARD TWO PIECE WATER COOLED FEEDBLOCK AND BARREL CONFIGURATION............................................................................................................ 389
Smith, Walter; Miller, Luke; Sickles, Robert; Womer, Timothy
AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON SHEAR STRESS CHARACTERISTICS OF POLYMERS IN SINGLE-SCREW EXTRUDERS ............................................................................. 394
Altinkaynak, Atakan; Gupta, Mahesh; Spalding, Mark; Crabtree, Sam
EVALUATION OF THE MELTING CAPACITY OF THREE SINGLE SCREWS ............................. 399Mount, Eldridge
HELIBAR ® - A POWERFUL SINGLE SCREW PLASTICATING SYSTEM .................................. 404Gruenschloss, Eberhard
EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF POLYPROPYLENE EXTRUSION INSTABILITY......................... 410Doufas, Antonios; Slusarz, Kevin; Beck, Jonathan; Catalina, Edward; Rhee, Sheung; Avolio, John
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS ON THE PLASTICATING PROCESS OF POLYMERS IN A SHORT SINGLE SCREW EXTRUDER AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF THE PROCESS .......................................................................................................................... 420
Potente, Helmut; Heim, Hans-Peter; Kleineheismann, Sebastian
SOLIDS COMPACTION AND CONVEYING IN A SINGLE-SCREW EXTRUDER BY DISCRETE PARTICLE MODELING ................................................................................................ 424
Thompson, Michael; Moysey, Paul
NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF SCREW TEMPERATURE ON THE MELTING PROFILE IN A SINGLE-SCREW EXTRUDER....................................................... 429
Altinkaynak, Atakan; Gupta, Mahesh; Spalding, Mark; Crabtree, Sam
FREEZEOUT IN SINGLE SCREW EXTRUDERS ........................................................................... 434Derezinski, Stephen
ANALYSIS OF THE STABILITY OF A SINGLE-SCREW EXTRUSION PROCESS USING GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS ..................................................................................................... 438
Wagner, John; Spalding, Mark; Crabtree, Sam
ULTRASOUND ASSISTED SINGLE SCREW EXTRUSION PROCESS FOR DISPERSION OF CARBON NANOFIBERS IN POLYMERS .......................................................... 448
Isayev, Avraam; Jung, Changdo; Gunes, Kaan
MATHEMATICAL MODEL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF POLYMER MELT FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER IN A COOLING EXTRUDER ........................................................ 453
Wang, Cuiling; Bussmann, Markus; Park, Chul
SUMMARY RESULTS OF NOVEL SINGLE SCREW COMPOUNDER.......................................... 458Luker, Keith
REACTIVE EXTRUSION PROCESS CHARACTERIZATION: Q/N MAPPING METHOD........................................................................................................................................... 463
Wetzel, Mark; Avgousti, Marios; Denelsbeck, Donald; Latimer, Susan; Shih, Chi-Kai
INFLUENCE OF PARTICLE SIZE ON MELTING AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION DURING COMPOUNDING: DOES THE EFFECT HOLD AT SCALED-UP CONDITIONS? ................................................................................................................................. 469
Esseghir, Mohamed; Neubauer, Anthony
OPTIMIZATION OF QUALITY AND THROUGHPUT AT LOW REVOLUTION SPEEDS IN AN ADVANCED TWO STAGE COMPOUNDING SYSTEM ....................................................... 480
Kuehn, Ralf; Heidemeyer, Peter; Burkhardt, Ulrich
STRESS INDUCED MIXING IN ROTOR ELEMENTS OF A COUNTER-ROTATING CONTINUOUS MIXER...................................................................................................................... 485
Ishikawa, Takeshi; Nagano, Fumisato; Kajiwara, Toshihisa
A COMPOSITE MODEL FOR SOLID CONVEYING, MELTING, PRESSURE, TEMPERATURES AND FILL FACTOR IN A METERED FED CLOSELY INTERMESHING COUNTER-ROTATING TWIN SCREW EXTRUDER .......................................... 490
Jiang, Qibo; Wilczynski, Krzysztof; White, James
EXTRUSION COMPOUNDING FUNDAMENTALS: AN INDUSTRIAL PERSPECTIVE ON MELTING AND MIXING OF POLYMER BLENDS .................................................................... 496
Shih, Chi-Kai; Wetzel, Mark
AXIAL TRANSPORT IN KNEADER REACTORS ........................................................................... 502Witte, Daniel
PREDICTION OF CONTINUOUS KNEADER REACTOR PROCESSES FROM BATCH DATA ................................................................................................................................................ 509
Safrit, Boyd
PROCESSING OF NANOCOMPOSITES WITH GRADIENT ARCHITECTURES IN TWIN SCREW EXTRUSION FOR A NOVEL COMBINATORIAL APPROACH ............................. 515
Kota, Arun; Strohmer, Timo; Bigio, David; Bruck, Hugh; Powell, Dan
EXTRUSION AND SPINNING OF NYLON-6,6 / SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE MIXTURES........................................................................................................................................ 520
Tzoganakis, Costas; Li, Ziqiang
UNDERSTANDING WHY ADHESION IN EXTRUSION COATING DECREASES WITH DIMINISHING COATING THICKNESS, PART III: ANALYSIS OF PEEL TEST............................. 525
Morris, Barry
ISOTHERMAL THERMAL GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE OXIDATION OF POLYPROPYLENE .......................................................................................................................... 530
Calhoun, Allison
CHARACTERIZATION OF CROSSLINKED HEAT-SHRINKABLE PACKAGING FILMS................................................................................................................................................ 536
Zhang, Wei; Yang, Hailing; Moffitt, Ronald; Tung, Jimmy
HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT (MW) NANO SIZED POLYETHYLENE (PE): EFFECT OF PARTICLE SIZE, MACRO-MICRO-NANO ................................................................................ 542
Paik, Pradip; Kar, Kamal
NOVEL METAL/POLYMER BLENDS FOR HIGHLY CONDUCTIVE APPLICATIONS ................. 547Michaeli, Walter; Pfefferkorn, Tobias
EFFECT OF HIGH MOLD TEMPERATURE AND LAYOUT OF GATE POSITION ON CONDUCTIVITY OF COMPOSITE POLYMER BIPOLAR PLATE. ................................................ 552
Shia Chung, Chen; Ming Yi, Shih; Yi Chang, Lin
THERMAL PROPERTIES AND STRUCTURE OF INJECTION MOLDED THIN-WALL PRODUCTS OF POLYPROPYLENE/BORON-NITRIDE COMPOSITES ....................................... 556
Ito, Hiroshi; Kazama, Kunihiko; Kikutani, Takeshi
IN-MOLD PART SHRINKAGE RATE MEASUREMENT ................................................................. 561Koppi, Kurt; Barger, Mark; Chang, Dane; Shields, Chad
MOLD THERMAL DESIGN: A SIMPLIFIED APPROACH TO PREDICT PART TEMPERATURE AND MINIMUM "SAFE" CYCLE TIME................................................................ 566
Hioe, Yunior; Chang, Keh-Chyou; Bhagavatula, Narayan; Castro, Jose
EFFECTS OF MELT ROTATION ON WARPAGE PHENOMENA IN INJECTION MOLDING ......................................................................................................................................... 571
Chien, Ching-Chang
PREDICTION OF THE WELD-LINE-INDUCED STRENGTH REDUCTION FOR NYLON6 AND ITS NANOCOMPOSITES ........................................................................................ 576
Li, Haimei; Shen, Changyu; Chen, Shiachung; Zhang, Xueling
THE SIMULATION OF RESIDUAL STRESSES OF INJECTION MOLDED CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS............................................................................................................ 580
Wu, Haihong; Zhao, Zhenfeng; Shen, Changyu
COMPARISON OF CRYSTALLIZATION BETWEEN WATER-ASSISTED AND GAS-ASSISTED INJECTION MOLDING PART OF SEMI- CRYSTALLINE POLYMER BASED ON NUMERICAL SIMULATION ......................................................................................... 584
Shen, Chang-Yu; Zhou, Ying-Guo; Chen, Jing-Bo
EFFECTS OF PROCESSING PARAMETERS ON OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF INJECTION MOLDED POLYSTYRENE PARTS ............................................................................. 589
Li, Haimei; Jiang, Kung; Xu, Wenli; Shen, Changyu
INFLUENCE OF THE THICKNESS OF INJECTED PLASTIC PIECES ON THE BEHAVIOR OF THE CAVITY PRESSURE CURVE ........................................................................ 594
Morales Nieves, Rosa; Candal Pazos, Maria
EVALUATION OF MOLECULAR ORIENTATION OF WELDLINE REGION IN INJECTION MOLDED POLYCARBONATE BY POLARIZED LASER-RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY ............................................................................................................................ 599
Yamada, Koji; Tomari, Kiyotaka
EFFECTS OF PROCESS CONDITIONS AND GLASS FIBER CONTENT ON PART QUALITY OF GLASS FIBER-REINFORCED PP PART ................................................................. 604
Lixia, Wang; Weiguo, Zhuang; Qian, Li; Changyu, Shen
NUMERCIAL SIMULATIONS OF RESIDUAL STRESSES IN POLYCARBONATE INJECTION MOLD PARTS .............................................................................................................. 609
Li, Haimei; Shen, Changyu; Jiang, Yan; Wang, Xin; Cao, Wei
INFLUENCE OF A STRESS CONCENTRATOR ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF PLASTIC PARTS ............................................................................................... 614
Candal Pazos, Maria; Rojas, Hector; Jimenez, Joyce
EFFECT OF THE PROCESS CONDITIONS OVER THE ADHESION BETWEEN TWO OVERMOLDED POLYMERS ........................................................................................................... 619
Candal Pazos, Maria; Gordillo, Antonio; Terife, Graciela; Santana, Orlando
INFLUENCE OF PROCESSING PARAMETERS ON SHINKAGE OF LDPE PART IN GAS-ASSISTED INJECTION MOLDING......................................................................................... 624
Li, Qian; Wang, Xiaofeng; Shen, Changyu; Jiang, Jing; Hou, Shusen
STUDY ON MICROCELLULAR INJECTION MOLDED OF PP/POE AND HDPE/POE COMPOSITES .................................................................................................................................. 629
Hsu, Peming
THE EFFECT OF THE INJECTION POINT LOCATION OVER THE FIBER GLASS LENGTH ........................................................................................................................................... 633
Villarroel, Sobeida; Morales, Rosa; Candal, Maria; Gordillo, Antonio
VOLUME 2 AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON MICRO INJECTION PARAMATERS. ....................................... 638
Jung, Woo-Chul; Heo, Young-Moo; Shin, Kwang-Ho; Yoon, Gil-Sang; Chang, Sung-Ho
INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE ON MICRO-FEATURE REPLICATION AT AMBIENT PRESSURE IN MICRO MOLDING ................................................................................. 643
Thakur, Varun; Angstadt, David
DETERMINATION OF GATE LOCATIONS IN COMPUTER-AIDED INJECTION MOLDING ANALYSIS. ..................................................................................................................... 648
Ryim, Won-Gil; Yun, Sang Mun
AN OPTIMIZATION OF NATURAL RUBBER INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS USING CAD/CAE: A CASE STUDY ON THE MOTORCYCLE RUBBER STEP............................ 652
Rodkwan, Supasit; Winyangkul, Seksan; Unnanon, Kittinan; Raksiri, Chana; Eiamsa-Ard, Kunnayut
BIREFRINGENCE DISTRIBUTION IN INJECTION MOLDED PARTS WITH WELD LINES................................................................................................................................................ 656
Jian, Han; Chenguang, Yan; Changyu, Shen; Chuntai, Liu
FILLING BALANCE OPTIMIZATION BY BEST GATE LOCATION ............................................... 661Baesso, Ruggero; Lucchetta, Giovanni
MANUFACTURING OF PLASTIC LENS MOLD CONFORMAL COOLING CHANNEL USING DIRECT METAL LASER SINTERING AND SPRAY-FORMED TOOLING PROCESS......................................................................................................................................... 666
Cha, Baeg-Soon; Park, Hyung-Pil; Rhee, Byung-Ohk
FOUNTAIN FLOW IN WATER-ASSISTED MELT FILLING............................................................ 671Liu, Xu-Hui; Huang, Han-Xiong
PREDICTING PROCESSING PARAMETERS FOR WATER-ASSISTED INJECTION MOLDING BASED ON INVERSE GA-LMBP NEURAL NETWORK .............................................. 675
He, Jianmin; Huang, Han-Xiong
DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXTENDED PREDICTIVE CONTROLLER FOR INJECTION SPEED .............................................................................................................................................. 679
Abu-Ayyad, Ma'Moun; Dubay, Rickey
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SHEAR IMBALANCE AND THICKNESS................................. 684Baluh, Eric; Wager, Mikael S.
STUDY ON CRYSTAL STRUCTURES OF ISOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE PROCESSED BY INJECTION MOLDING ....................................................................................... 689
Binbin, Dong; Junyi, Liu; Changyu, Shen; Jingbo, Cheng; Chuntai, Liu
STUDY ON THE OPTICAL PERFORMANCE OF LIGHT GUIDE PLATE WITH DOUBLE-SIDE MICRO FEATURE DESIGN ................................................................................... 693
Shia Chung, Chen; Ching-Hsin, Hu; Ming, Chang; Wei-Yao, Hsu; Ying-Chieh, Wang
STUDY OF PRESSURE CONTROL DEVICE TO IMPROVE FOAMING UNIFORMITY FOR THE INJECTION MOLDING MICROCELLULAR FOAMING PROCESS............................... 698
Shia Chung, Chen; Jui-Pin, Yang; Yu-Wan, Lin; Pin-Shun, Syu; Shih-Sin, Hwang
REMOVAL OF OXYGEN DISSOLVED IN THERMOPLASTIC RESIN FOR GENTLE PROCESSING .................................................................................................................................. 703
Schmiederer, Dirk; Kühnert, Ines; Schmachtenberg, Ernst
EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT INJECTION MOLDING SCREW DESIGNS FOR BETTER COLOR MIXING ................................................................................................................ 708
Sickles, Robert; Miller, Luke; Smith, Walter; Womer, Timothy
DYNAMICS OF HOT RUNNER PURGING ...................................................................................... 712Sriseubsai, Wipoo; Schott, Nick
AN INVESTIGATION ON THE TEMPERATURE BEHAVIOR IN MOLD EMBEDDED WITH HEATER ................................................................................................................................. 717
Chen, Shia-Chung; Wang, I-Chao; Chiou, Yan-Chen; Chou, Ya-Yuen; Yang, Wen-Hsien
EVALUATING THERMAL UNIFORMITY WITH PULSE COOLING ............................................... 722Byrne, Sean; Kremm, John
THE INFLUENCE OF PROCESSING VARIABLES AND TWO-WAY INTERACTIONS ON THE WELDLINE STRENGTH OF INJECTION MOLDED PARTS ........................................... 727
Changyu, Shen; Lixia, Wang; Qian, Li; Shufen, Lu
THE IMPACT OF SHEAR RATE ON WARPAGE WITH A FOCUS ON SHEAR IMBALANCES IN NEAT AND FILLED MATERIALS ...................................................................... 732
Baluh, Eric; Wagner, Michael S.
SHRINKAGE STUDY OF TEXTILE ROLLER MOLDED BY THE MICROCELLULAR INJECTION PROCESS. ................................................................................................................... 737
Hsu, Peming; Chiang, C.-W
USE OF INJECTION SPEED PROFILE TO ACHIEVE A UNIFORM VOID FRACTION DISTRIBUTION IN INJECTION MOLDED STRUCTURAL FOAMS ............................................... 742
Lee, John; Wang, Jing; Park, Chul; Tao, Guoliang
SANDWICH INJECTION MOLDING OF POLYPROPYLENE AND BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER ........................................................................................................................................ 747
Fujita, Yuji; Yoshida, Toshihiro; Sano, Hironari; Kotaki, Masaya; Hamada, Hiroyuki
DISTRIBUTION OF MINOR PHASE COMPONENTS AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE FILM-SUBSTRATE INTERFACE IN FILM INSERT MOLDINGS .................................................... 751
Leong, Yew Wei; Hamada, Hiroyuki
IN-MOLD-FABRIC DECORATED PARTS WITH A PLASTIC TRIMMED EDGE ........................... 756Spalding, Mark; Salamon, Brent; Hus, Mike
INVESTIGATION ON WARPAGE AND ITS BEHAVIOR IN SEQUENTIAL OVERMOLDING. .............................................................................................................................. 760
Huang, Chao-Tsai; Chen, Meng-Chih; Yang, Wen-Li; Chang, Kai-Jie; Tseng, Shi-Chang
PLASTICS INDUSTRY: THE ABILITY AGE.................................................................................... 765Yu, Harrison
BIOPHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING - AN UNSEEN PLASTICS MARKET..................... 769Wells, Robert
DESIGNING PLASTIC MEDICAL PARTS FOR ASSEMBLY ......................................................... 774Summo, Arthur
A PARAMETRIC STUDY ON THE PROCESSING AND PHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PLGA 50/50 BIOSCAFFOLDS ............................................................ 778
Leung, Linus; Chan, Christine; Song, Janice; Tam, Billy; Naguib, Hani
EFFECT OF POLARITY ON ELECTROSPINNING POLYCAPROLACTONE TISSUE ENGINEERING SCAFFOLDS .......................................................................................................... 783
Lippincott, Hugh
EFFECTS OF MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION ON THE FIBER FORMATION OF ELECTROSPUN POLYSTYRENE ............................................................................................. 793
Dai, Xiaoshu
NOVEL POLYCARBONATE BLENDS WITH IMPROVED ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS CRACKING RESISTANCE (ESCR) TO HOSPITAL CLEANERS AND HOUSEHOLD DISINFECTANTS ..................................................................................................... 799
Siripurapu, Srinivas; Chakravorty, Asima; Singh, Naveen
THE PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYESTER THERMOSET XEROGELS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING SCAFFOLDS .............................................................. 804
Borgaonkar, Poonam; Sharma, Sachin; Chen, Ming; Bhowmick, Sankha; Schmidt, Daniel
POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES CONTAINING CARBON NANOTUBES: FLAMMABILITY, ELECTRICAL, AND THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY ............................................. 809
Moniruzzaman, Mohammad; Winey, Karen
EFFECT OF CRYSTALLIZATION RATE OF SOFT SEGMENT ON SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT IN SHAPE MEMORY POLYURETHANE IONOMER........................................................ 810
Zhu, Yong; Hu, Jinlian; Choi, Ka-Fai; Yeung, Kwok-Wing
POLYMER AND AZOBENZENE LIQUID CRYSTAL MIXTURES: NEW PHOTORESPONSIVE MATERIALS................................................................................................ 825
Tabiryan, Nelson; Serak, Svetlana; Hrozhyk, Uladimir; Dai, Xiao-Man; Bunning, Timothy
FUNCTIONALLY-GRADED SHAPE MEMORY POLYMERS ......................................................... 826Lee, Kyung-Min; Mather, Patrick
ACTIVE NANOCOMPOSITES: ENHANCING SHAPE MEMORY AND ACTUATION ................... 830Vaia, Richard
THE MORPHOLOGY-ACTUATION RELATIONSHIPS IN IONIC POLYMER-METAL COMPOSITE (IPMC) MEMBRANES CAST WITH AN IONIC LIQUID............................................ 831
Viggiano, Rocco
CRYSTALLIZATION OF SHAPE MEMORY POLYMER BLENDS ................................................. 839Arnoult, Olivier; Mather, Patrick
A STUDY OF FOAMING AGENT IN BIO-BASED POLYMER FOAMS.......................................... 845Wu, Yi-Fan
EFFECT OF HYPERDISPERSANTS IN POLYETHYLENE MASTERBATCH AND RIGID POLYVINYL CHLORIDE COMPOUND ................................................................................ 848
Panchal, Jatin
COMPRESSED VISCOSE SPONGES AS ACTUATORS............................................................... 853Spoormaker, Jan; Heidweiller, Anton
DESIGNING INJECTION MOLDED BIOPLASTICS PRODUCTS .................................................. 857Koster, Rolf; Dijken, Bregtje Van; Erve, Lobke Van
PRODUCT DESIGN SUPPORT FOR NANOCOMPOSITE MATERIALS APPLICATION .................................................................................................................................. 862
Koster, Rolf; Tufekcioglu, Emre; Vlasveld, Daniël
OPTIMIZATION OF GASKET MATERIALS FOR PLASTIC CONTAINERS FOR AMMUNITION ................................................................................................................................... 866
Sinha, Yash
USE OF DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS IN ANALYZING INJECTION MOLDING AND EXTRUSION PROCESSES.............................................................................................................. 885
Rao, Natti; Shastri, Ranganath
USE AND DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR USING AN INDUSTRIAL CO2 LASER FOR TRIMMING THERMOFORMED PARTS.................................................................................. 890
Marroquin, Nathaniel; Leal, Aristeo
HOW TPV OUT-PERFORMS EPDM IN ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES FOR AUTOMOTIVE SEALING ................................................................................................................. 896
Browell, James
WHAT EVERY PLASTICS PROFESSIONAL SHOULD KNOW ABOUT PATENTS AND PATENTING - PART 3: LAWFUL DESIGNING AROUND VALID U.S. PATENTS ............... 903
Tayebi, Amad
DURABILITY AND ADHESION TEST FOR FABRIC COVERED PLASTIC PARTS ..................... 905Hermel-Davidock, Theresa; Spalding, Mark; Hus, Mike; Buck, John; Reuschle, David
DESIGNING SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS USING BIO-BASED NANOCOMPOSITES ................ 910Tufekcioglu, Emre; Koster, Rolf; Vlasveld, Daniël; Jongboom, Remy
PROCESS TIME REDUCTION IN BLOW MOULDING PROCESS WITH CONFORMAL COOLING ................................................................................................................. 914
Masood, Syed; Jeyasingh, Vijay
INFLUENCE OF INJECTION MOLDING PARAMETERS ON ONE-STAGE INJECTION STRETCH BLOW MOLDING....................................................................................... 919
Chen, Meng-Chih; Hsu, Chih-Lin; Huang, Chao-Tsai; Yang, Wen-Hsien; Chen, Chia-Hsun; Lin, Kun-Chang
FIELD FAILURE ANALYSIS: PINPOINT MODE OF FAILURE OF POLYOLEFIN PIPES................................................................................................................................................ 924
Zhou, Zhenwen
EFFECTS OF STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINT AND IMPULSE ENERGY ON FRACTURE BEHAVIOR OF A FLEXIBLE COMPOSITE TUBING ................................................ 929
Guo, Xiaoping
FAILURE MECHANISM OF PANEL LEAK FORMATION IN SOLUTION CONTAINERS .................................................................................................................................. 934
Blom, Henk
FAILURE ANALYSIS OF GASOLINE STORAGE ASSEMBLIES .................................................. 939Jansen, Jeffrey
FAILURE ANALYSIS OF POLYPROPYLENE USED IN A HOT WATER ENVIRONMENT - EFFECT OF DIFFERENT STABILIZER SYSTEMS .......................................... 944
Edwards, Dale; Kasner, Alan; Broutman, Lawrence
POLYMAG PROCESS; SEPARATE & RECOVER CO-MOLDED RESINS ................................... 949Collins, John
CYCLIC DATA LEADS TO MORE ACCURATE FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS ........................... 954Narhi, Ward
OIL EXTENSION OF OLEFIN BLOCK COPOLYMERS ................................................................. 959Ansems, Patricia; Soediono, Mahalia; Taha, Angela
MELTING BEHAVIOR OF A POLY(ETHER-BLOCK-AMIDE) COPOLYMER MELT-CRYSTALLIZED UNDER ISOTHERMAL, QUIESCENT CONDITION ........................................... 964
Guo, Xiaoping
THE EFFECTS OF SHEAR IMBALANCES ON INTRA-CAVITY MELT FLOW USING VARYING MELT FLOW RATES IN THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS AND VULCANIZATES .............................................................................................................................. 969
Baluh, Eric; Wagner, Michael S.
INVESTIGATION AND MODIFICATION OF THE MELT RHEOLOGY OF OLEFIN BLOCK COPOLYMERS................................................................................................................... 973
Gupta, Pankaj; Costeux, Stephane; Oswald, Tom; Cheung, Wilson; Weaver, Laura; Karande, Seema; Chum, Stephen
IMPROVEMENT OF TRANSPARENCY AND PROCESSING PROPERTIES OF HARD TPU MATERIALS ............................................................................................................................. 978
Henze, Oliver; Krech, Rüdiger; Waßner, Erik
PROPERTIES OF THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANES DERIVED FROM H12MDI ................ 983Parnell, Shane
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SOME NOVEL POLYURETHANES BASED ON RIGID OR FLEXIBLE AROMATIC DIISOCYANATES AND MIXTURES OF THEM .......................................................................................................................................... 988
Prisacariu, Cristina; Buckley, C.
PREPARATION AND MELT VISCOELASTIC STUDY ON TPV NANOCOMPOSITE USING PEROXIDE CROSSLINKING SYSTEM .............................................................................. 992
Goharpey, Fatemeh; Jalali, Amirjalal; Nazockdast, Hossein; Katbab, Ali Asghar
INSERT COATING AS A PRE-PROCESSING APPROACH FOR IMPROVEMENT OF ADHESIVE BONDING IN PLASTIC-METAL HYBRID STRUCTURES .......................................... 996
Al-Sheyyab, Ahmad; Kuehnert, Ines; Schmachtenberg, Ernst
ADHESIVELY BONDED SMART COMPOSITE JOINTS: AN OVERVIEW.................................. 1001Cheng, Jinquan; Li, Guoqiang; Pang, Su-Seng
EVALUATION OF ORIENTED POLYPROPYLENE/CAST POLYPROPYLENE FILM AT THE HEAT SEALING PART AND THE EDGE ........................................................................ 1006
Hashimoto, Yumi; Hashimoto, Yasuo; Leong, Yew; Yamada, Kazushi; Hamada, Hiroyuki
APPLICATION OF POLYMER WELDING THEORY TO INDUSTRIAL PROCESS DESIGN .......................................................................................................................................... 1010
Moffitt, Ronald; Zhang, Wei; Donohue, William; Zbell, Thomas; Mattox, W. Charles; Queen, Wesley
INTERFACIAL INTERPRETATION OF AUTOHESION OF ETHYLENE/1-OCTENE COPOLYMERS BY ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY .................................................................. 1015
Yang, Hailing; Zhang, Wei; Moffitt, Ronald; Ward, Thomas
IMPACT PERFORMANCE OF PE BUTT FUSION WELDED JOINTS ......................................... 1021Frontini, Patricia; Acha, Betiana; Fasce, Laura; Pettarín, Valeria
VIBRATION WELDING OF HARD TPO TO SOFT TPO ............................................................... 1027Wu, Chung-Yuan; Wichterman, Beth
COMPARISON OF SHEAR AND BUTT JOINT DESIGNS FOR VIBRATION WELDING OF POLYPROPYLENE-BASED NANOCLAY COMPOSITES ................................... 1032
Mokhtarzadeh, Abbass; Benatar, Avraham
MICROFABRICATION ON POLYMER SUBSTRATES FOR LAB-ON-A-CD APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................. 1037
Grewell, David; Vengasandra, Srikanth
ULTRASONICALLY ASSISTED HOT PLATE WELDING OF GLASS FILLED POLYPROPYLENE ........................................................................................................................ 1042
St. John, Marc; Flowers, Sean
ELIMINATATION OF FLASH A NOVAL MICRO-EMBOSSING TECHNIQUE............................. 1047Grewell, David; Harmon, Greg
EXPERIMENTS WITH COMBINED ULTRASONIC AND LASER EMBOSSING OF MICROCHANNELS IN PMMA ....................................................................................................... 1052
Marcus, Miranda; Benatar, Avraham
POTENTIAL ULTRASONIC COMPACTION OF ZEIN AND DISTILLERS DRY GRAIN (DGG).............................................................................................................................................. 1057
Grewell, David; Vogel, Julius; Montalbo, Melissa; Srinivasan, Gowrishankar
ASPECTS OF ELECTROSPINNING PROCESS CONTROL FROM FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS................................................................................................................................ 1063
Stanger, Jonathan; Tucker, Nick; Staiger, Mark; Reeves, Roger; Larsen, Nigel
AN IN-PROCESS ULTRASONIC APPROACH TO INVESTIGATING THE RELAXATION OF ORIENTATION AND DISORIENTATION OF POLYMER MELTS.................. 1068
Li, Jiang; Sun, Zhigang; Tatibouët, Jacques; Jen, Cheng-Kuei
CAUSES OF MELT TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS OBSERVED IN THE NOZZLE DURING INJECTION MOLDING.................................................................................................... 1073
Johnston, Stephen; Kazmer, David; Fan, Zhaoyan; Gao, Robert
DEVELOPMENT OF RUBBER MOULD INLINE PROCESS AND OFFLINE PROCESS INSPECTION BY TOUCH PROBE.............................................................................. 1078
Rodkwan, Supasit; Rianmora, Suchada; Raksiri, Chana; Eiamsa-Ard, Kunnayut
INTELLIGENT QUALITY PREDICTION IN INJECTION MOLDING ............................................. 1083Hsu, Chia-Hsiang; Chang, Chuan-Wei; Jwo, Jyh-Jer
MULTIVARIATE PROCESS ANALYSIS FOR THE PREDICTION OF INJECTION MOLDED PART QUALITY ............................................................................................................. 1088
Hazen, Daniel; Kazmer, David
DIRECT VISUALIZATION OF CONVENTIONAL INJECTION MOULDING ................................. 1093Yanev, Angel; Dias, Gustavo; Cunha, Antonio
ESTIMATION OF BULK MELT TEMPERATURE FROM IN-MOLD SENSORS: PART 2 - CONVECTION ........................................................................................................................... 1098
Johnston, Stephen; Kazmer, David; Fan, Zhaoyan; Gao, Robert
PROCESSING CONDITIONS AND THERMAL PROPERTIES OF POLY(LACTIC ACID) .............................................................................................................................................. 1103
Niu, Langang; Schott, Nick R
INVESTIGATION OF REVERSED SHEAR INDUCED MELT IMBALANCES IN INJECTION MOLDS ....................................................................................................................... 1108
Beaumont, Alex I.
EFFECTS OF PINCH-OFF GEOMETRY ON BLOW-MOLD WELD LINE STRENGTH ............... 1113Vandeveer, Michael; Badowski, Clint; Loeffler, Matthew
DIFFERENCE IN THERMOFORMING PROCESSABILITY OBSERVED FOR THREE HIGH IMPACT POLYSTYRENES .................................................................................................. 1118
Woelfle, Caroline; Koppi, Kurt; Costeux, Stephane; Hogan, Todd; Dooley, Joe
CHANGING THE GAME IN THERMOPLASTIC POLYOLEFINS (TPO) FOR CUT SHEET THERMOFORMING .......................................................................................................... 1123
Hogan, Todd; Hoenig, Stephen; Walther, Brian; Walton, Kim; Finlayson, Malcolm; Costeux, Stephane
HIGH MELT STRENGTH POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE FOR THERMOFORMING APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................. 1129
Mekhilef, Nafaa; Hedhli, Lotfi; Reynaud, Sara; Pasquariello, Gilberto O.
IN-MOLD-GRAINING IN THERMOFORMING ............................................................................... 1135Haberstroh, Edmund; Ederleh, Lennart
MIGRATION OF SURFACE DEFECTS THRU THICKNESS OF A POLYMER FILM DURING THERMOFORMING ........................................................................................................ 1140
Gupta, Venkateswara; Asthana, Himanshu; Dias, Ashwit
IMPROVED PROPERTIES AND COST EFFICIENCIES OF CYCLIC OLEFIN COPOLYMER ENHANCED FORMING FILMS ............................................................................. 1145
Tatarka, Paul
NEW HIGH HEAT POLYCARBONATE COPOLYMERS .............................................................. 1150Zerda, Adam; Smith, Gary
HEAT-AGING PERFORMANCE OF METALLIZED THERMOPLASTICS FOR AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING .............................................................................................................. 1156
Zerda, Adam; Guggenheim, Kathryn; Grau, Beatrice; Hoeks, Theo
LEXAN* DMX GRADE RESINS - SCRATCH RESISTANT, BARRIER POLYCARBONATES ..................................................................................................................... 1161
Pai-Paranjape, Vandita; Lens, Jan-Pleun
DEVELOPMENT OF POLYCARBONATE DIFFUSER FILMS FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS ...................................................................................................................................... 1167
Gurel, Elif; Peters, Phil; Graf, John
PROCESSING FINE-CELLED RECYCLABLE CBA-BASED POLYOLEFIN FOAMS IN COMPRESSION FOAM MOLDING ............................................................................................... 1172
Pop-Iliev, Remon
ORIENTATION STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF A PROPYLENE-BASED ELASTOMER.................................................................................................................................. 1177
Dias, Peter; Kasmierczak, Tomasz; Ansems, Patricia; Chum, Stephen; Hiltner, Anne; Baer, Eric
COMPARISON OF BLOCK AND RANDOM ETHYLENE-OCTENE COPOLYMERS BASED ON THE STRUCTURE AND ELASTOMERIC PROPERTIES ......................................... 1181
Wang, Haopeng; Taha, Angela; Chum, Stephen; Hiltner, Anne; Baer, Eric
MISCIBILITY OF NOVEL BLOCK COPOLYMERS....................................................................... 1186Kamdar, Akshay; Wang, Haopeng; Khariwala, Devang; Hiltner, Anne; Baer, Eric; Chum, Stephen; Chen, Hongyu
CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS OF OLEFINIC BLOCK COPOLYMERS .................................... 1191Khariwala, Devang; Taha, Angela; Chum, Steve; Hiltner, Anne; Baer, Eric
OLEFIN BLOCK COPOLYMERS AS POLYOLEFIN BLEND COMPATIBILIZER ....................... 1196Chen, Hongyu; Poon, Ben; Chum, Stephen; Dias, Peter; Hiltner, Anne; Baer, Eric
EFFECT OF THERMAL HISTORY ON THE SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND LIGHT TRANSMISSION OF BIAXIALLY-ORIENTED POLYPROPYLENE FILMS ................................. 1201
Lin, Yijian; Dias, Peter; Van Dun, Jozef; Chum, Stephen; Hiltner, Anne; Baer, Eric
MECHANISM OF ACTION OF ESTER THIOLS AS STABILIZERS FOR PVC............................ 1206Ge, Xianlong; Culyba, Elizabeth; Starnes, William
PLASTISOL FORMULATION STUDIES WITH BENZOATE ESTERS ......................................... 1211Strepka, Arron; Arendt, William; Joshi, Makarand
IMPACT OF DIDP ON OUTDOOR WEATHERABILITY OF FLEXIBLE PVC .............................. 1216Daniels, Paul
POLYMERIC PLASTICIZER DEVELOPMENTS ........................................................................... 1222Arendt, William; Walker, Yvonne; Joshi, Makarand
PVC NANOCOMPOSITES - METHODS OF PROMOTING FILLER DISPERSION ..................... 1228Gilbert, Marianne; Thomas, Noreen; Zheng, Xiaoran; Georgiadou, Styliani; Brooks, Brian
PVC / LAYERED SILICATE NANOCOMPOSITES: PREPARATION, CHARACTERIZATION, AND PROPERTIES................................................................................. 1233
Francis, Noble; Schmidt, Daniel
RIGID PVC-BASED NANOCOMPOSITES PRODUCED THROUGH A NOVEL MELT-BLENDING APPROACH................................................................................................................ 1238
Matuana, Laurent
HYBRID NANOCLAY-RIGID PVC-WOOD-FLOUR COMPOSITES.............................................. 1243Matuana, Laurent
RECYCLED VINYL WALLPAPER-A NEW COMPOSITE............................................................. 1248Tarverdi, Karnik
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SURFACE MICROSTRUCTURE AND IMPROVED SCRATCH WHITENING RESISTANCE OF THERMOPLASTIC POLYOLEFINS FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS .................................................................................................... 1253
Hermel-Davidock, Theresa; Seliskar, James; Oelberg, James
ADVANCEMENTS IN SUPER LOW GLOSS ABS ........................................................................ 1257Calhoun, Marisa; Van Riel, Norwin; Shields, Nigel; Rogers, Steve
DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PC/ABS PRODUCTS FOR CHROME PLATING APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................. 1262
Agarwal, Naveen; Volkers, Andre
A NEW APPROACH TO SEATBACK DESIGN - BLOW MOLDED SEATBACKS ...................... 1267Kauffmann, Keith; Kotnis, Ashish; Ahmed, Mustafa; Naughton, Padraig
VOLUME 3 FLEXURAL CREEP TESTING OF THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES ....................................... 1273
Chevali, Venkata; Janowski, Gregg
ADVANCEMENTS IN LASER MARKING AND ENGRAVING USING INTEGRATED, THROUGH-THE-LENS VISION ..................................................................................................... 1278
Benayad-Cherif, Faycal; McIntosh, Linda
ADVANCES IN VIBRATION WELDING TECHNIQUES ALLOW WELDING MULTI-PIECE CONSOLE ASSEMBLY ..................................................................................................... 1284
Heatherwick, William
UNCERTAINTY IN COLOR MEASUREMENT .............................................................................. 1287Ladson, Jack; Fairman, Hugh
THE INFLUENCE OF COLOR ....................................................................................................... 1291Belcher, Teri; Harvey, Kevin
STRATEGY FOR A SELECTABLE PERFORMANCE COLORED CAPSTOCK OFFERING SCHEME WITH REGARDS TO WEATHERABILITY AND COST ............................ 1302
Richards, Christopher
FUNDAMENTALS OF WEATHERING .......................................................................................... 1306Roberts, Ron; Simmons, Carlene; Novak, Stephen
WEATHERING AND LIGHT STABILITY OF SELECT PLASTIC MATERIALS ........................... 1318Solera, Peter
ENHANCING THE PERFORMANCE OF POLYMERIC DYES IN POLYPROPYLENE................ 1323Waters, John; Dipietro, Thomas
SELECTION OF COLORANTS AND OTHER ADDITIVES FOR DURABLE PRODUCTS .................................................................................................................................... 1328
Bal, James
EFFECT OF ADDITIVES ON THE COLOR & APPEARANCE OF PLASTICS. ........................... 1334Mulholland, Bruce
INTERACTION OF HALS AND COLORANTS .............................................................................. 1341Goldstein, Steve
THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TIO2 SURFACE AND POLYMER ADDITIVES ...................... 1346Niedenzu, Philipp
EXCIMER LASER ABLATION OF POLYSTYRENE-CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES ...................... 1351Chang, I-Ta; Sancaktar, Erol
EVALUATION OF NANOPARTICULATE FILLERS FOR SHAPE MEMORY POLYURETHANE NANOCOMPOSITES....................................................................................... 1356
Gunes, I. Sedat; Cao, Feina; Jimenez, Guillermo; Jana, Sadhan
SHAPE MEMORY POLYURETHANE-CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES............................................. 1361Cao, Feina; Jana, Sadhan
FUNCTIONALLY GRADED POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES (FGPNC) FILLED WITH NANO SIZED FILLER .................................................................................................................... 1366
Ahankari, Sandeep; Kamal, Kar
PRODUCTION OF A TRACTOR CAB ROOF MODULE USING DIRECT IN-LINE COMPOUNDING OF LONG GLASS FIBER THERMOPLASTICS ............................................... 1371
Ledebuhr, Scott; Grinsteinner, Darin; Snowberger, Scott
COMPOSITES IN THE TRUCK INDUSTRY .................................................................................. 1377Zenk, Edward
PREPARATION AND PROPERTIES OF NANOPARTICLE AND LONG FIBER REINFORCED THERMOSET COMPOSITES................................................................................ 1383
Zhou, Gang; Guerra, Dante; Movva, Siva; Lee, L.
EFFECT OF STRAIN RATE ON TENSILE PROPERTIES OF CARBON NANOFIBER-REINFORCED SC-15 EPOXY........................................................................................................ 1388
Zhou, Yuanxin
EVALUATION OF NANOCLAY EXFOLIATION STRATEGIES FOR THERMOSET POLYIMIDE NANOCOMPOSITE SYSTEMS................................................................................. 1393
Gintert, Michael; Jana, Sadhan; Miller, Sandi
APPLICATION OF COMPOSITES IN THE SULPHUR ACID PRODUCTION .............................. 1398Makarov, Valery
EFFECT OF THE CLAY TREATMENT ON CURE AND MORPHOLOGY OF EPOXY-POLYSULFONE-MONTMORILLONITE HYBRID NANOCOMPOSITES...................................... 1401
Arellano, Martin
STUDIES ON THERMOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF NICKEL-PHOSPHOROUS COATED CARBON FIBER FABRIC/POLYESTER LAMINATES ................................................ 1406
Patra, Niranjan; Sarkar, Soumya; Kar, Kamal
CONDUCTIVITY OF INHERENTLY CONDUCTIVE POLYMER AND CONDUCTIVE PARTICLE COMPOSITES ............................................................................................................. 1411
Severance, Chris
GENERIC CIRCUITS BY CONDUCTIVE EPOXY/NI ADHESIVES: GEOMETRIC EFFECTS ........................................................................................................................................ 1422
Zhou, Jianguo
IMPACT OF FOAMING ON ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY AND FIBER ORIENTATION OF COC/CARBON FIBER COMPOSITES IN INJECTION MOLDING ............... 1427
Hashemi-Motlagh, Ghodratollah; Hrymak, Andrew; Thompson, Michael
THE INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT SURFACE ROUGHNESS ON MICROFLUIDIC FLOW TIME .................................................................................................................................... 1432
Jong, Wen-Ren; Kuo, T. H.; Peng, S. H.; Chiu, H. H.
THE COMPARISONS OF IC PACKAGES WITH-WITHOUT UNDERFILL ON THE THERMO-MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS............................................................................ 1437
Tsai, H. C.; Jong, W. R.; Peng, S. H.
NONISOTHERMAL CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS OF POLYPROPYLENE - THE USE OF A MODIFIED KISSINGER METHOD ............................................................................... 1442
Chau, Cc; Patchen, W.
CRYSTALLIZATION OF UV-IRRADIATED -NUCLEATED POLYPROPYLENE ......................... 1447Vychopnova, Jana
CRYSTALLINITY DEVELOPMENT DURING SPINNING OF POLYPROPYLENE PART I: ON-LINE MEASUREMENTS USING RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY ................................. 1452
Paradkar, Rajesh; Patel, Rajen; Doufas, Antonios; Knickerbocker, Ed
CRYSTALLINITY DEVELOPMENT DURING SPINNING OF POLYPROPYLENE PART II: FIBER SPINNING MODEL VALIDATION...................................................................... 1457
Patel, Rajen; Doufas, Antonios; Paradkar, Rajesh; Knickerbocker, Ed
TOWARDS LOWER CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURES IN POLYETHYLENE................... 1462Patki, Rahul; Phillips, Paul
RHEOLOGICAL AND CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOR OF LINEAR AND BRANCHED PBT ........................................................................................................................... 1467
Jeong, Byeong Joon; Xanthos, Marino; Hyun, Kun Sup
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYACRYLAMIDE- CHITOSAN HYDROGELS ................................................................................................................................. 1472
Ortega-Gudiño, Pedro; Sánchez-Díaz, Juan; Becerra-Bracamontes, Fausto; Martínez-Ruvalcaba, Agustín; González-álvarez, Alejandro
EFFECT OF CELL SHAPE ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYURETHANE FOAMS MOLDED UNDER SEVERAL CONDITIONS................................................................... 1476
Yamaguchi, Kazumi; Goto, Akihiko; Nakai, Asami; Hamada, Hiroyuki
VISCO-ELASTIC POLYURETHANE FOAMS CREEP BEHAVIOR AND RECOVERABILITY ANALYSIS ..................................................................................................... 1481
Wu, Shaofu; Obi, Bernard; Wilchester, Jim; Juarez, Victor
LONG-TERM THERMAL INSULATION PERFORMANCE OF POLYSTYRENE FOAM BOARDS WITH DECAY OF BLOWING AGENTS ........................................................................ 1486
Zhu, Zhenjin
PRODUCTION OF NOVEL SOUND ABSORPTION MICROCELLULAR FOAMS USING HIGH INTERNAL PHASE EMULSION POLYMERIZATION ............................................ 1491
Ahmed, M. Y. Serry; Kim, S.; Atalla, Noureddine; Park, Chul; Lee, Seong
EFFECTS OF SURFACE TEXTURE AND SURFACE ROUGHNESS ON POLYMER SCRATCH BEHAVIOR................................................................................................................... 1503
Jiang, Han; Browning, Robert; Moyse, Allan; Sue, Hung-Jue
ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IN FILMS RESEARCH ..................................................................... 1508Bobovitch, Arthur
NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR COATING OF A POLYMERIC CATALYST ONTO A METALLIC SUBSTRATE ............................................................................................................... 1513
Hosseini, Hossein
SOLID-STATE SHEAR PULVERIZATION AS A REAL-WORLD PROCESS FOR POLYMER BLENDS AND NANOCOMPOSITES .......................................................................... 1520
Wakabayashi, Katsuyuki; Tao, Ying; Lebovitz, Andrew; Torkelson, John
CONTINUOUS ULTRASONIC PROCESS FOR PREPARATION OF PET/LCP BLENDS ......................................................................................................................................... 1525
Gunes, Kaan; Isayev, Avraam
APPLICATION OF TAPPING MODE ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY FOR MEASURING RELATIVE INTERFACE THICKNESS IN MULTILAYER POLYOLEFIN FILMS.............................................................................................................................................. 1530
Paradkar, Rajesh; Li, Jing; Bar, Georg; Pham, Hoang; Bosnyak, Clive
IMPACT FRACTURE BEHAVIOR OF PP/EPR BLENDS ............................................................. 1535Liu, Jia (Daniel)
NANOMECHANICAL AND NANOTACK PROPERTIES OF POLYMER COMPOSITES ............ 1539Morgan, Sarah; Jones, Paul; Tucker, Samuel; Wiggins, Jeffrey
NEW MATERIALS FROM POLYLACTIDE BIOPLASTICS .......................................................... 1543Bhardwaj, Rahul; Mohanty, Amar
THE REINFORCEMENT OF POLY(LACTIC ACID) USING HIGH ASPECT RATIO CALCIUM CARBONATE BASED MINERAL ADDITIVE .............................................................. 1549
Xia, Zhiyong; Wernett, Patrick; Prendes, Dennis; Bopp, Richard
DEVELOPMENT OF RENEWABLE POLYMERS FROM 1,3-PROPANE DIOL AND MALONIC ACID.............................................................................................................................. 1554
Rowe, Mathew; Smith, Erin; Walters, Keisha
IMPROVING THE TOUGHNESS OF POLY(LACTIC ACID)(PLA) THROUGH CO-CONTINUOUS, IMMISCIBLE, BIODEGRADABLE BLENDS WITH PHA .................................... 1561
Lee, Jinkoo; McCarthy, Stephen
INVESTIGATION OF FILM BLOWING PROCESS STABILITY FOR METALLOCENE BASED LLDPE WITH DIFFERENT LEVEL OF LONG CHAIN BRANCHING ............................. 1565
Zatloukal, Martin; Kolarik, Roman; Martyn, Mike; Coates, Phil
MODELING OF NON-ISOTHERMAL HIGH STALK FILM BLOWING PROCESS BY USING VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES FOR NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS ..................................... 1571
Zatloukal, Martin; Mavridis, Harry; Vlcek, Jiri; Saha, Petr
POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE CONTAINING LONG CHAIN BRANCHING FOR BLOWN FILM APPLICATIONS ..................................................................................................... 1576
Mekhilef, Nafaa; Hedhli, Lotfi; Reynaud, Sara; Pasquariello, Gilberto O.
EFFECT OF MATERIAL PROPERTIES AND PROCESSING CONDITIONS ON PP FILM CASTING............................................................................................................................... 1582
Aniunoh, Kenneth; Harrison, Graham
A FINITE ELEMENT MODEL FOR NON-ISOTHERMAL VISCOELASTIC FLOW IN THE CAST FILM PROCESS .......................................................................................................... 1587
Cox, Christopher; Von Oehsen, James
ONLINE ORIENTATION DURING POLYETHYLENE BLOWN FILM EXTRUSION USING POLARIZED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY ......................................................................... 1592
Gururajan, Giriprasath; Ogale, Amod
NEW TRANSPARENT COPOLYCARBONATE COMPOSITIONS WITH LOW OSU HEAT RELEASE VALUES............................................................................................................. 1597
Di, Jianbo; Davis, Gary; Jackson, Katherine; Kassmi, Ahmed El; Mullen, Brian; Schultz, Laura; Sinha, Moitreyee; Sybert, Paul D.; Zhang, Jenny
VISCOELASTIC FLOW IN MICRO-INJECTION MOLDING.......................................................... 1603Hu, Xin; Liu, Chuntai; Xu, Guojun; Lee, Ly
A NOVEL APPROACH FOR MEASURING THE SPECIFIC VOLUME OF (SEMI-CRYSTALLINE) POLYMERS AT ELEVATED COOLING RATES USING X-RAYS .................... 1608
Michaeli, Walter; Hentschel, Manfred; Lingk, Oliver
ANALYSIS OF VISCOUS HEATING EFFECTS IN A PRESSURE SLIT RHEOMETER USING RADIAL FUNCTIONS METHOD ....................................................................................... 1613
Lopez, Ivan; Klaiber, Fritz; Osswald, Tim
EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVE INJECTION LOCATIONS WITH VARIABILITY CONSIDERATION IN AN AUTOMOTIVE PART ........................................................................... 1618
Gaido, Thania; Bhagavatula, Narayan; Castro, Jose
PROCESS OPTIMIZATION OF INJECTION MOLDING BY INTEGRATING NUMERICAL SIMULATION WITH SURROGATE MODELING APPROACHES.......................... 1622
Zhou, Jian; Turng, Lih-Sheng
DYNAMIC MOLD SURFACE TEMPERATURE CONTROL FOR ASSISTING INJECTION MOLDING OF LIGHT-GUIDE PLATE AND IMPROVING OPTICAL PERFORMANCE. ........................................................................................................................... 1627
Shia Chung, Chen; Jen An, Chang; Jin Chuan, Cin; Chun Feng, Yeh
WHAT EVERY PLASTICS PROFESSIONAL SHOULD KNOW ABOUT PRODUCT LIABILITY - PART I: SOURCES OF PRODUCT LIABILITY CLAIMS......................................... 1632
Tayebi, Amad
TRACKING THE COMMERCIALIZATION PROCESS .................................................................. 1634Baumann, Margaret
CLUSTER PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT: A CASE-STUDY OF PLASTIC CLUSTERS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC ....................................................................................... 1638
Knapkova, Adriana; Dehning, Bruce; Remes, Daniel; Drobny, Jiri
CLUSTERS AS A TOOL FOR COMPANIES' PERFORMANCE INCREASING: A COMPARISON OF CONDITIONS FOR ESTABLISHMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CLUSTERS IN THE U.S.A, AUSTRIA, AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC ........................................ 1643
Pavelkova, Drahomira; Jones, Roger; Jircikova, Eva
THE EFFECT OF E-BEAM STERILIZATION ON THE OPTICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF MEDICAL PLASTICS....................................................................................... 1648
Gill, Roberta; Stack, Gary; Breeding, Ken
USING STERILIZING DOSES FROM THREE DIFFERENT SOURCES OF IONIZING RADIATION .................................................................................................................................... 1653
Portnoy, Robert; Berejka, Anthony; Cleland, Marshall; Galloway, Richard
MICROPATTERNING POLY(ACRYLAMIDE) ON PLA FILMS USING PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY ................................................................................................................. 1661
Rasal, Rahul; Hirt, Douglas
NOVEL MATERIAL PROPERTIES FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS VIA IONIZING RADIATION .................................................................................................................................... 1666
Woo, Lecon; Yang, Tahua; Shang, Sherwin
A STUDY ON THE PREPARATION OF IRRADIATION CROSSLINKED SILICONE RUBBER FOAM AND ITS MECHANICAL PROPERTIES ............................................................ 1670
Liu, Pengbo; Liu, Dalong; Xu, Wen
BULK AND NANO MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SURFACE MODIFIED POLYPROPYLENE FILMS WITH ACRYLIC ACID AS GRAFTING AGENT ............................... 1675
Frontini, Patricia; Fasce, Laura; Suarez, María; Pettarín, Valeria; Costamagna, Vanina; Strumia, Miriam
RADIATION CROSS-LINKING OF ENGINEERING THERMOPLASTICS FOR TRIBOLOGY APPLICATIONS ....................................................................................................... 1680
Brocka, Zaneta; Schmachtenberg, Ernst; Ehrenstein, Gottfried
EFFECT OF ELECTRON BEAM RADIATION ON THE MELT RHEOLOGY OF POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE AND ITS COPOLYMERS ........................................................... 1685
Mekhilef, Nafaa
HIGH-ENERGY ELECTRON BEAM PROCESSING OF WOOD COMPOSITES ......................... 1691Griffith, William; Labbe, Nicole
CASE STUDIES: INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS AND IMPROVED POLYMER MATERIALS CREATED VIA ELECTRON BEAM IRRADIATION ................................................ 1695
Gomolka, David; Minbiole, Paul; Yasenchak, Daniel
MATERIALS CHEMISTRY FOR PRINTED ELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS ............................ 1700Reichmanis, Elsa
FUNCTIONAL FILMS FOR INTELLIGENT PACKAGING ............................................................ 1701Pisipati, Ramesh
GETTER MATERIALS FOR QUASI-HERMETIC ELECTRONIC PACKAGING APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................. 1702
Kim, Gene
A TECHNOLOGY LOOK INTO THE FUTURE (RFID, SRA, MOBILE COMPUTING, CRISIS MANAGEMENT)................................................................................................................ 1703
Smouse, Wayne
CASTING OF SOY AND ZEIN PROTEIN POLYMERS................................................................. 1704Grewell, David; Srinivasan, Gowrishankar; Kessler, Michael
IMPROVEMENT OF THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SOY-BASED PLASTICS .............. 1708Vlad, Maria; Srinivasan, Gowrishankar; Grewell, David
SYNERGISTIC BIODEGRADABLE AND BIO-BASED BLENDS AND NANOCOMPOSITES CREATED USING PULVERIZATION ........................................................ 1712
Walker, Amanda; Tao, Ying; Torkelson, John
PURIFICATION PROCEDURES TO OBTAIN CHITIN WHISKERS FROM SHRIMP SHELLS .......................................................................................................................................... 1717
Arnal, Maria; Marquez, Marianella; Matos, Mireya; Lopez-Carrasquero, Francisco; Rosales, Carmen; Muller, Alejandro
DEVELOPMENT OF CONDUCTING POLYMER USING STABILIZED GOLD NANOPARTICLES FOR CHEMICAL SENSOR ............................................................................ 1722
Vedaiyan, Ramya; Harinath, Arvind Vyas; Lou, Jianzhong; Banerjee, Chandra; Sankar, Jag
THICKNESS CHARACTERIZATION OF THIN POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE OXYGEN BARRIER ....................................................................................................................... 1728
Jang, Woo-Sik; Grunlan, Jaime
CREATING GRADIENT REFRACTIVE INDEX (GRIN) LENSES BY NANOLAYERED POLYMER ASSEMBLY ................................................................................................................. 1733
Kamdar, Akshay; Jin, Yi; Yang, Yankai; Ponting, Michael; Kazmierczak, Tomasz; Hiltner, Anne; Baer, Eric; Beadie, Guy; Lane, Paul; Shirk, James
FORCED ASSEMBLY OF LAYERED POLYMERS ...................................................................... 1738Baer, Eric; Hiltner, Anne
STRUCTURE-PROPERTY INVESTIGATION OF NOVEL MULTI-LAYER NANOCLAY COMPOSITES FORMED CONTROLLABLY WITH A CONTINUOUS CHAOTIC BLENDER ....................................................................................................................................... 1739
Zumbrunnen, David; Mahesha, Chaitra; Perahia, Dvora; Ratnaweera, Dilru; Kampf, Mark
NANOSTRUCTURAL AND LAMELLAR ORIENTATION IN CAST AND BLOWN NANOCOMPOSITE POLYETHYLENE FILMS. ............................................................................. 1744
Beaucage, Gregory; Bafna, Ayush; Breese, Ryan
FRACTIONATED CRYSTALLIZATION OF ß-NUCLEATED POLYPROPYLENE MICRODROPLETS PRODUCED FROM NANOLAYERS............................................................. 1745
Langhe, Deepak; Jin, Yi; Hiltner, Anne; Baer, Eric
CURING OF BISPHENOL M DICYANATE ESTER UNDER NANOSCALE CONSTRAINT................................................................................................................................. 1750
Simon, Sindee; Li, Qingxiu
ISOCONVERSION ANALYSIS OF THE GLASS TRANSITION.................................................... 1756Simon, Sindee; Badrinarayanan, Prashanth; Zheng, Wei
MECHANICAL HOLE BURNING SPECTROSCOPY IN THE VICINITY OF THE ODT FOR AN SIS BLOCK COPOLYMER ............................................................................................. 1761
Qin, Qian; McKenna, Gregory; Shi, Xiangfu
EFFECT OF CARBON NANOTUBES ON THE CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOR POLYETHYLENE OXIDE ............................................................................................................... 1766
Narh, Kwabena; Khanolkar, Mahesh; Umbrajkar, Swati; Dreizin, Edward
MOLE FRACTION BRANCHES USING SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING: A NEW APPROACH USING FRACTAL GEOMETRY. .............................................................................. 1771
Beaucage, Gregory; Kulkarni, Amit
EFFECT OF PROCESS CONDITIONS ON THE MICRO-DOMAIN STRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF CYLINDRICAL BLOCK COPOLYMER SYSTEMS.................... 1772
Mamodia, Mohit; Lesser, Alan
DETERMINATION OF VALID MINIMUM DIMENSIONS OF DDENT SPECIMENS TO EVALUATE THE ESSENTIAL WORK OF FRACTURE (EWF) OF POLYETHYLENES.............. 1777
Sanchez, Johan
ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF FIBRE SURFACE MODIFICATION OF ARAMID FIBRES IN A THERMOPLASTIC MATRIX.................................................................................... 1782
Coffey, Austin
TG IN POLYMER/OLIGOMER ATHERMAL BLENDS .................................................................. 1788Simon, Sindee; Zheng, Wei
SURFACE AND INTERFACIAL STUDIES OF PLANT BIOPOLYMERS ..................................... 1793Batteas, James
THE NANOPOROUS MORPHOLOGY OF PHOTOPOLYMERIZED CROSSLINKED POLYACRYLAMIDE HYDROGELS FOR DNA ELECTROPHORESIS ........................................ 1794
Wang, Jian; Ugaz, Victor
FRACTURE BEHAVIOR OF MEDIUM DENSITY POLYETHYLENES BY ESSENTIAL WORK OF FRACTURE (EWF) ...................................................................................................... 1808
Sanchez, Johan; Navarro, Maria; Muller, Alejandro; Santana, Orlando
EVALUATION OF SCRATCH BEHAVIOR OF PLASTIC MOULDINGS ...................................... 1813Kita, Hiromi; Mizoguchi, Machiko; Kuriyama, Takashi
EFFECT OF INCLUSION SIZE AND LOCATION ON PE PIPE LIFETIME .................................. 1818Zhou, Zhenwen; Choi, Byoung-Ho; Chudnovsky, Alexander; Sehanobish, Kalyan
STUDY OF DAMAGE IN FILAMENT WOUND THERMOPLASTIC MATRIX COMPOSITE PIPES ....................................................................................................................... 1823
Silva, Joao Francisco
MULTIPHYSICS BASED PROGRESSIVE FAILURE ANALYSIS FOR CRYOGENIC COMPOSITE FUEL TANK DESIGN .............................................................................................. 1828
Ju, Jaehyung; Morgan, Roger; Reddy, J
EVALUATION OF FRACTURE TOUGHNESS FOR THIN-WALL INJECTION MOULDED PLASTICS ................................................................................................................... 1835
Kita, Hiromi; Mizoguchi, Machiko; Kuriyama, Takashi
A CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR CREEP LIFETIME OF PBO BRAIDED CORD ........................ 1839Sterling, Jerry
IMPACT RESISTANCE OF SELECTED IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS............................... 1843Viratyaporn, Wantinee; Lehman, Richard; Joshi, Jayant
POLYCARBONATE COPOLYMERS WITH IMPROVED HEAT AND HYDROLYTIC RESISTANCE ................................................................................................................................. 1848
Maruvada, Krishna; Rosenquist, Niles; Dhara, Dibakar; Purushotham, A
POLYPROPYLENE/POLYSULFONE MEMBRANES ................................................................... 1853Flaris, Vicki; Lawal, Sikiru
COMPATIBILIZATION EFFICIENCY OF MALEIC ANHYDRIDE GRAFTED HIGH-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE WITH AND WITHOUT ZINC NEUTRALIZATION FOR HIGH-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE/POLYAMIDE 6 BLENDS....................................................... 1856
Grady, Brian; Nithitanakul, Manit; Chatreenuwat, Benjamaad
POLYBUTENE-1: DISCUSSION OF AN OLD POLYMER PRODUCED WITH A NEW TECHNOLGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN FLEXIBLE PACKAGING ........................................ 1861
Boutni, Omar
EFFECT OF FILLER ADDITION ON FLAMMABILITY OF FLAME-RETARDANT PP ................ 1865Seino, Makoto; Kotaki, Masaya
HIGH HEAT-DUCTILE (HHD) COPOLYMERS BY REACTIVE EXTRUSION .............................. 1869Mullen, Brian
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN INFRARED WELD TECHNOLOGY ............................................ 1873Cunningham, Robert; Sanborn, Ken
BROADBAND INFRARED WELD STRENGTH AS COMPARED TO OTHER MAINSTREAM PLASTIC WELDING TECHNIQUES. ................................................................... 1878
Hershey, Daniel; Caldwell, Scott; Nelson, Ken; Rooney, Paul
ENGINEERING PLASTICS FOR LASER WELDING .................................................................... 1882Van Gurp, Marnix; Van Der Vegte, Eric
EVALUATION OF LASER ENERGY TRANSMISSION (LET) MEASUREMENT METHODS OF 30% GLASS REINFORCE NYLON 6 MATERIAL................................................ 1888
Lee, Chul; Ballou, Ray
LASER WELDING OF PLASTICS: PROCESS AND PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY ............... 1893Hänsch, Dirk
ABSORBANCE CONTROL WELDING BY LASER ...................................................................... 1897Hatase, Yoshiteru; Kihara, Tetsuji; Yamamoto, Satoshi; Yushina, Heihachi
DESIGN OF EXPERIMENT TO OPTIMIZE ABSORBER IN RESIN WELDING PARAMETERS ............................................................................................................................... 1901
Burrell, Michelle; Cawley, William; Verespy, Joseph
VOLUME 4 WELDABILITY EVALUATION ON EFFECTS OF FILLER CONTENT OF POLYPYLENE COPOLYMERS FOR THE ELECTROMAGNETIC WELDING PROCESS....................................................................................................................................... 1906
Park, Joon; Lewis, Duane; Yoon, C. K.; Esposito, Jon; Au, Brendon
RHEOMETER COMPLIANCE EFFECTS: VISCOELASTIC MEASUREMENTS ON SMALL MOLECULE GLASS FORMERS AND A PDMS RUBBER ............................................. 1911
Hutcheson, Stephen; McKenna, Gregory
PREDICTION OF POLYETHYLENE MELT INDEX AND MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION USING A CAPILLARY RHEOMETER................................................................. 1916
Todd, William; Olenius, Victor L.; Mack, Jean M.
ESTIMATION OF POLYMER MELT INDEX WITH A CONTROLLED RATE CAPILLARY RHEOMETER AND A PARALLEL PLATE DMA..................................................... 1922
Pawlowski, Henry
DETERMINATION OF SHEAR VISCOSITY AND SHEAR RATE FROM PRESSURE DROP AND FLOW RATE RELATIONSHIP IN A RECTANGULAR CHANNEL........................... 1928
Son, Younggon; Kim, Dong
APPLICABILITY OF ADVANCED CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS FOR COEXTRUSION FLOWS OF POLYOLEFIN MELTS .................................................................... 1933
Zatloukal, Martin; Pivokonsky, Radek; Martyn, Mike; Filip, Petr
EFFECT OF DIE GEOMETRY AND EXTENSIONAL RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES ON VORTEX DEVELOPMENT IN RECTANGULAR DIES ........................................................... 1938
Zatloukal, Martin; Chaloupkova, Katerina; Hertel, Daniela; Münstedt, Helmut
DETERMINATION OF UNIAXIAL EXTENSIONAL VISCOSITY FOR POLYOLEFINS BY IMPROVED ENTRANCE PRESSURE DROP MEASUREMENTS.......................................... 1943
Zatloukal, Martin; Musil, Jan
PRESSURE PROFILES IN EXTRUSION DIES WITH CONSIDERATION OF PREMATURE CELL GROWTH C PART I EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS.......................... 1948
Wang, Jing; Park, Chul; James, David
FAST ACQUISITION MELT PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS TO DETECT FLOW INSTABILITIES A NEW OPTION FOR CAPILLARY RHEOMETERS........................................ 1953
Sunder, Joachim; Goettfert, Axel
MEASUREMENT OF THE HIGH FREQUENCY VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES OF POLYPROPYLENE USING A SLIDING PLATE RHEOMETER ................................................... 1958
Braybrook, Chelsea; Lee, Jennifer; Bates, Philip; Kontopoulou, Marianna
THE EFFECT OF LONG-CHAIN BRANCHING ON EXTENSIONAL RHEOELOGY AND ITS CORRELATION AS A PREDICTOR FOR MOLECULAR ARCHITECTURE ................ 1963
McGrady, Christopher; Baird, Donald
COMPARISON BETWEEN AMORPHOUS METALLIC ALLOY AND SILICON AS MOLDING INSERT FOR MICRO INJECTION MOLDING OF POLYMERS ................................. 1968
Loke, Yew Weng
MICROSTRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MICRO-INJECTION MOLDED THERMOPLASTICS....................................................................................................................... 1973
Chu, Jingsong; Hrymak, Andy; Kamal, Musa
EFFECTS OF TOOLING AND INJECTION MOLDING CONDITIONS ON NANOSCALE REPLICATION OF THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS ....................................... 1978
Alabran, Michael
MICRO-INJECTION MOLDING OF HIGH ASPECT RATIO FEATURES WITH THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANES........................................................................................ 1983
Yoon, Sung-Hwan; Alabran, Michael; Lee, Jun; Mead, Joey; Carter, David; Barry, Carol
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND MORPHOLOGY OF PMMA-GRAFTED-SILICA/PMMA INJECTION MOLDED COMPOSITES .................................................................. 1988
Kobayashi, Yuka; Yamada, Kazushi; Leong, Yew; Sarata, Makoto; Hamada, Hiroyuki; Kotaki, Masaya; Yoshinaga, Kohji; Karakawa, Hiroyuki; Ito, Hiroshi; Kazama, Kunihiko
A STUDY OF INTEGRATION OF LIGA AND MEDM TECHNOLOGY ON THE MICRO INJECTION MOLDING OF INK JET PRINTERS' NOZZLE PLATES ........................................... 1993
Tseng, Shi-Chang; Shew, B. Y.; Chen, Y. C.
PROCESS SELECTION FOR MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE MANUFACTURING ............................. 1997Mazzeo, Aaron; Dirckx, Matthew; Hardt, David E.
INFLUENCE OF PROCESS PARAMETERS ON THE WELD LINES OF A MICRO INJECTION MOLDED COMPONENT............................................................................................ 2002
Tosello, Guido; Gava, Alberto; Hansen, Hans; Lucchetta, Giovanni
IN-SITU CAVITY PRESSURE MONITORING IN MICRO-INJECTION MOLDING ....................... 2007Kuek, Soon-Chun; Angstadt, David
SURFACE REPLICATION PROPERTY AND HIGHER-ORDER STRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT OF MOLDED PARTS WITH ULTRASTRUCTURAL PATTERNS PREPARED BY MICRO/NANOMOLDING .................................................................................... 2013
Ito, Hiroshi; Kazama, Kunihiko; Kikutani, Takeshi; Takaoka, Toshimitsu; Kawai, Shinsuke
ANALYSIS OF INJECTION MOLDING TO FABRICATE PATTERNED MEDIA WITH NANO PILLARS ............................................................................................................................. 2018
Choi, Minseok; Lee, Namseok; Han, Jeongwon; Hong, Jongill; Kang, Shinill
STUDY ON HOT EMBOSSING MOLDING PROCESS AND REPLICATION EFFECTS WITH DIFFERENT ASPECT-RATIO MICRO CHANNELS ........................................................... 2023
Shia Chung, Chen; Ying, Chang; Ying-Chieh, Wang
REPLICATION AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF INJECTION MOLDINGS WITH MICROSTRUCTURES.................................................................................................................... 2028
Murakami, Osamu; Yamada, Kazushi; Kotaki, Masaya
NUMERICAL SIMULATION AND MOLDABILITY INVESTIGATION OF MICRO-FEATURES ..................................................................................................................................... 2033
Chang, Cheng-Yi; Hsu, Shirley
COMPRESSIBILITY OF RESIN, A NEW LOOK AT BULK DENSITY .......................................... 2038Miloser, Adam
INJECTION-MOLDING DEGRADATION OF BIODEGRADABLE POLYLACTIDE ..................... 2043Haibach, Richard
LASER WRITABLE POLYMERS: MARKABILITY AND DURABILITY CHARACTERISTICS...................................................................................................................... 2048
Meruva, Satya; Barker, Micheal
THE EFFECT OF OVERFLOW TABS ON AFFECTED AREA ..................................................... 2053Haibach, Jeremy; Glessner, Josh; Thorwart, Trevor
PREDICTING SHELF LIFE OF MEDICAL GRADE POLYMERS USING ACCELERATED HEAT AGING ..................................................................................................... 2058
Nachreiner, Eric; Miloser, Adam
ENHANCING PRODUCTIVITY OF SOLID-STATE MICROCELLULAR ABS PANEL PRODUCTION BY PARTIAL GAS SATURATION IN THE RETROGRADE REGION................. 2062
Nadella, Krishna; Kumar, Vipin
EFFECTS OF PROCESSING PARAMETERS ON THE CELLULAR MORPHOLOGY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MINERAL-FILLED THERMOPLASTIC POLYOLEFIN MICROCELLULAR FOAMS................................................................................... 2067
Wong, Steven; Naguib, Hani; Park, Chul
MICROCELLULAR INJECTION MOLDING OF PP AND PC/ABS WITH PRECISION MOLD OPENING AND GAS COUNTERPRESSURE ................................................................... 2072
Kühn, Joanna
METHODS TO THE SMOOTH SURFACE OF MICROCELLULAR FOAM IN INJECTION MOLDING ................................................................................................................... 2077
Xu, Jingyi
EFFECTS OF PROCESSING CONDITIONS ON THE FOAMING PERFORMANCES IN THE POLYOLEFIN INSULATED COAXIAL CABLE EXTRUSION.......................................... 2082
Nam, Gi Joon; Park, Chan Yong; Lee, Gun Joo
STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCING CELL NUCLEATION OF THERMOPLASTIC POLYOLEFIN (TPO) FOAM........................................................................................................... 2087
Kim, Seonggi; Lee, John; Park, Chul; Sain, Mohini
MEASUREMENT OF PP MELT SWELLING DUE TO CO2 DISSOLUTION ................................ 2093Li, Yao Gai Gary; Wang, Jin; Park, C. B.
UNDERSTANDING MELT RHEOLOGY & FOAMABILITY OF PP-BASED TPO BLENDS ......................................................................................................................................... 2098
Gunkel, Florian; Spörrer, Andreas; Lim, Goy Teck; Sampath, Bangaru; Altstädt, Volker
EFFECT OF DIE GEOMETRY ON FOAMING BEHAVIORS OF HIGH-MELT-STRENGTH POLYPROPYLENE WITH CO2 ................................................................................. 2103
Lee, Patrick C.; Kaewmesri, Wanrudee; Wang, Jing; Park, Chul; Pumchusak, Jantrawan; Foland, Rick; Praller, Andreas
THE EFFECT OF MOLD TEMPERATURE ON MORPHOLOGY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF INJECTION MOLDED HDPE STRUCTURAL FOAMS ................................... 2108
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POLYPHENYLENE ETHER MACROMONOMERS. I. PROPERTY ENHANCEMENTS IN THERMOSET RESINS VIA NOVEL TELECHELIC OLIGOMERS ........................................... 2113
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MONITORING CURING REACTIONS OF THERMOSETS UNDER HIGH PRESSURE BY USE OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY ....................................................................................... 2117
Cruz, Javier; Osswald, Tim; Kemper, Mark
ROTATIONAL MOLDING OPTIMIZATION.................................................................................... 2122Hoekstra, Nicole; Slesinger, Nathan; Murphy, Luke; Kieser, Jordan
ON FORMULATION AND PROCESSING OF RIGID POLYURETHANES VIA CONTROLLED CURE .................................................................................................................... 2127
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THE ROLE OF CHAIN BRANCHING IN EXTRUSION BLOW MOLDING OF POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE ..................................................................................................... 2132
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REDUCTION OF THE COOLING TIME OF BLOW-MOLDED PARTS BY USING WATER SPRAY.............................................................................................................................. 2137
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NUMERICAL SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON PARISON FORMATION FROM A VARYING DIE GAP IN EXTRUSION BLOW MOLDING......................... 2142
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PETALOID BASES OF PET BOTTLES: DESIGN AND PROCESS OPTIMIZATION AGAINST STRESS CRACKING .................................................................................................... 2146
Demirel, Bilal; Daver, Fugen; Kosior, Edward
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SIMULATION SOFTWARE FOR STRETCH BLOW MOULDING..................................................................................................................................... 2152
Erbulut, Deniz; Masood, Syed; Sbarski, Igor
RECYCLED POLY (ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) BLENDS FOR HOT-FILL BOTTLES ....................................................................................................................................... 2156
Patuto, Joseph; Daver, Fugen; Kosior, Edward
COMPOSITES OF SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES AND STYRENE-ISOPRENE COPOLYMERS ........................................................................................................... 2161
Ha, Mai; Grady, Brian
MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF DEFORMATION BEHAVIOR OF CARBON NANOTUBES UNDER GENERIC MODES OF LOADING ........................................... 2166
Kar, Kamal; Agnihotri, Prabhat; Basu, Sumit
EFFECT OF INJECTION MOLDING PARAMETERS ON THE ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITIY OF POLYCARBONATE/CARBON NANOTUBE NANOCOMPOSITE ............ 2171
Chandra, Alexander; Kramschuster, Adam; Hu, Xiaodong; Turng, Lih-Sheng
ELECTRIC FIELD TAILORING OF SINGLE WALL CARBON NANOTUBE POLYMER COMPOSITES ................................................................................................................................ 2176
Banda, Sumanth; Ounaies, Zoubeida
A METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING RELATIVE INTERFACIAL SHEAR STRESS IN MWNT/POLYMER COMPOSITES ................................................................................................. 2181
Duncan, Renee; Schadler, Linda; Andrews, Rodney; Brinson, L; Chen, X; Beyerlein, Irene
IMPROVING THE DISPERSION OF THE CARBON NANOTUBES IN POLYMER BASED NANOCOMPOSITES BY DRY COATING ....................................................................... 2186
Narh, Kwabena; Jallo, Laila; Dave, Rajesh
HYBRID NANOCOMPOSITES OF CARBON NANOTUBES (CNTS) GROWN ON CARBON FIBER IN POLYESTER MATRIX WITH IMPROVED THERMOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES ........................................................................................ 2191
Agnihotri, Prabhat; Kar, Kamal
CONTINUOUS DISPERSION OF CARBON NANOTUBES IN POLYMERS USING ULTRASOUND ASSISTED EXTRUSION PROCESS ................................................................... 2196
Kumar, Rishi; Lewis, Todd; Isayev, Avraam
FOAMING BEHAVIOUR OF CELLULOSE FIBRE REINFORCED HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE COMPOSITES .................................................................................................. 2201
Kuboki, Takashi; Lee, Yoon; Park, Chul; Sain, Mohini
COMPARISON OF N2 AND CO2 IN EXTRUSION FOAMING OF WOOD-FIBER COMPOSITES ................................................................................................................................ 2206
Guo, George; Rizvi, Ghaus; Park, Chul
EFFECT OF NANO-CLAY ON FOAMING OF WF/HDPE COMPOSITES ................................... 2211Lee, Yoon Hwan
THE INFLUENCE OF FIBRE LENGTH AND CONCENTRATION ON THE PROPERTIES OF SISAL FIBRE REINFORCED POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITES ................ 2217
Burgstaller, Christoph; Stadlbauer, Wolfgang
SYNERGISTIC EFFECT OF PP-G-MA AND SEBS-G-MA ON POLYPROPYLENE-BASED WOOD-PLASTIC COMPOSITES REINFORCED WITH NANOCLAY ............................ 2222
Yeh, Shu-Kai; Kim, Kwang-Jea; Gupta, Rakesh K.
WOOD FIBER REINFORCED POLYAMIDES ............................................................................... 2227Muzzy, John; Xu, Xiaolin; Ragauskas, Art
STRUCTURAL, THERMAL, AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MISCANTHUS-DERIVED BIOCOMPOSITES......................................................................................................... 2232
Markevicius, Gediminas; Jones, Sean; Malhotra, Vivak
MECHANICAL, ELECTRICAL AND THERMAL PROPERTIES OF MWCNT/POLY (LACTIC ACID) COMPOSITES...................................................................................................... 2237
Kuan, Chen-Feng; Chen, Chia-Hsun; Kuan, Hsu-Chiang; Lin, Kun-Chang
MANUFACTURE AND MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF A COMPOSITE MATERIAL MADE OF WASTED TIRES AND RECYCLED POLYETHYLENETHEREPHTALATE (PET) ................................................................................. 2242
Rios-Soberanis, Carlos; Mis-Fernandez, Ricardo; Azamar-Barrios, Jose; Rodriguez-Laviada, Jose
BAMBOO FIBER REINFORCED ECO-COMPOSITES BY WETLAY PROCESSING ................. 2247Zhang, Wei; Yang, Hailing; Moffitt, Ronald
CHEMICAL RECYCLING OF PET WITH SOLID STATE SHEAR PULVERIZATION TECHNOLOGY............................................................................................................................... 2253
Hosseini, Hossein; Hadavand, Behzad
EFFECT OF MOLDING CONDITIONS ON MORPHOLOGY AND STRUCTURE OF RECYCLED-PET ............................................................................................................................ 2259
Leong, Yew Wei; Ohta, Tomoko; Yamada, Kazushi; Hamada, Hiroyuki
SMARTER MATERIALS SYSTEMS DESIGNS FOR THE FUTURE ............................................ 2263Bosnyak, Clive; Chudnovsky, Alexander; Pham, Hoang; Wu, Shaofu
POLYURETHANES FROM SOYBEAN OIL-BASED POLYOLS WITH MIXED PRIMARY AND SECONDARY HYDROXYLS ............................................................................... 2267
Petrovic, Zoran; Guo, Andrew; Javni, Ivan; Cvetkovic, Ivana; Hong, Doo Pyo
OPTICAL AND MECHANICAL DURABILITY OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS FOR SOLAR COLLECTORS.................................................................................................................. 2270
Jorgensen, Gary
SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES OF TELECHELIC POLY(LACTIC ACID) IONOMERS..................................................................................................................................... 2275
Ro, Andrew; Weiss, Robert; Huang, Samuel
CONTINUOUS FILM CASTING AND EVALUATION OF NOVEL POLYMER MEMBRANES FOR FUEL CELLS................................................................................................. 2279
Huang, Jianhua; Baird, Donald; McGrath, James
THE MARRIAGE OF PACKAGING AND BIOMATERIALS: PRESENT AND FUTURE .............. 2284Auras, Rafael
PHOTOINITIATED GRAFTING OF N-VINYLPYRROLIDONE ONTO (POLYLACTIC ACID) FILM .................................................................................................................................... 2289
Gutierrez-Villarreal, Mario; Ulloa, Mayra; Gaona, Gerardo
BIAXIAL CONSTITUTIVE RESPONSE OF PET DURING HOT DRAWING: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY AND NEW IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSTITUTIVE MODELLING................................................................................................................................... 2294
Lew, Chun; Buckley, Paul
APPLICATIONS OF HEAT SEALING MODELING ....................................................................... 2299Moffitt, Ronald
ENHANCED BARRIER IMPROVEMENT FOR PET-BOTTLES BY COMBINATION OF INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR PLASMA ASSISTED COATING...................................................... 2305
Michaeli, Walter; Binkowski, Dirk; Hegenbart, Andreas
DEVELOPMENT OF NEW IONOMERS WITH NOVEL GAS PERMEATION PROPERTIES ................................................................................................................................. 2310
Chen, John
IMPACT OF METALLIZER PROCESS CONTROLS ON OPTICAL AND GAS BARRIER UNIFORMITY ................................................................................................................ 2315
Mount, Eldridge
NOVEL PET NANOCOMPOSITES WITH ENHANCED BARRIER FOR PACKAGING APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................. 2319
Lagaron, Jose
MULTILAYER FILMS OF ETHYLENE CO-VINYL ALCOHOL (EVOH) NANOCOMPOSITES AND POLYPROPYLENE (PP) FOR FOOD PACKAGING APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................. 2324
Schirmer, Sarah; Froio, Danielle; Thellen, Christopher; Mannarino, Matthew; Lucciarini, Jeanne; Ratto, Jo Ann
CLEAR BARRIER AT ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE - THE SECOND PHASE ........................... 2329Wolf, Rory
PERMEABILITY OF FLAKE-FILLED BARRIER MEMBRANES: A NUMERICAL EVALUATION ................................................................................................................................. 2335
Chen, Xiaoming; Papathanasiou, Thanasis
CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYCARBONATE/POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE BLENDS UNDERGOING TRANSESTERIFICATION .................................................................... 2341
Yan, Linglong; Hufen, Ralf; Moulinie, Pierre; Karbach, Alexander; Konrad, Stephan; Schultz, Claus
SURFACE MODIFICATION OF PLA-PHA BLEND FILMS........................................................... 2346Rasal, Rahul; Bohannon, Bradley; Hirt, Douglas
VISUALIZATION AND MODELING OF VISCOELASTIC DROP DEFORMATION AND BREAKUP IN SIMPLE SHEAR FLOW .......................................................................................... 2351
Li, Huaping; Sundararaj, Uttandaraman
HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE DEVELOPED IN PC/ABS CLOSED SPIRAL FLOW INJECTION MOLDING ................................................................................................................... 2356
O-Charoen, Narongchai; Leong, Yew Wei; Hamada, Hiroyuki; Kotaki, Masaya
DYNAMIC MECHANICAL, THERMAL AND FRACTURE TOUGHNESS PROPERTIES OF PC/ABS BLEND SYSTEM WITH INCORPORATION OF PC-OLIGOMER ............................ 2361
Umemura, Toshikazu; Kim, Sungeon; Leong, Yew Wei; Ogazi, Onyaemachi; Yamada, Kazushi; Hamada, Hiroyuki
MINI MIXING DEVICES FOR SPECIALTY NANO-STRUCURED BLENDS AND COMPOSITES: EVALUATION OF FLOW, MIXING AND MORPHOLOGY ................................. 2364
Sundararaj, Uttandaraman; Breuer, Orna
DETERMINING THE PROCESSABILITY OF MULTILAYER COEXTRUDED STRUCTURES................................................................................................................................ 2369
Dooley, Joseph
SCALE UP RULES FOR PROFILE GEOMETRIES IN EXTRUSION DIES AND OPTIONS TO ADJUST SURROUNDING FLOW CHANNELS TO AVOID TRANSVERSE FLOW .................................................................................................................... 2374
Potente, Helmut; Heim, Hans Peter; Schlottmann, Ralf
EFFECT OF DIE DESIGN AND WALL SLIP ON DIE DROOL PHENOMENON FOR METALLOCENE BASED LLDPE: THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ............................................................................................................................ 2379
Zatloukal, Martin; Chaloupkova, Katerina
SIMULATION OF EXTRUSION DIE SWELL BEHIND AN ORIFICE DIE ..................................... 2384Michaeli, Walter; Fink, Björn
BALANCING OF PROFILE DIE FOR GLASS RUN SEAL OF A CAR USING THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW SIMULATION............................................................................................ 2389
Zacarias, Felix; Schrader, Scott; Gupta, Mahesh
FLOW STABILITY AND THINCKNESS UNIFORMITY IN CONTINUOUS EXTRUSION ............. 2393Derezinski, Stephen
MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT ON FLAME RETARDANT POLYESTER COMPOSITIONS WITH IMPROVED FLOWABILITY .................................................................... 2399
Cantor, Kirk
NUMERICAL BALANCING OF COEXTRUSION DIES : A VALIDATION STUDY WITH A TPV-BASED HOSE ......................................................................................................... 2404
Marchal, Thierry; Burton, T; Franceschetti, G; De Rijcke, J.; Chauvin, C; Metwally, H. M.
VISCOELASTIC FLOW MODEL APPLIED TO TUBING EXTRUSION ........................................ 2410Li, Ming; Hurley, William
SHARKSKIN AND MELT FRACTURE OF SOME BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS .................. 2415Kanev, Damyan; Takacs, Elizabeth; Vlachopoulos, John
INTER-LAYER ADHESION IN CO-EXTRUDED STRUCTURES: ROLE OF MELT INTERFACIAL VISCOELASTIC STRESSES DURING FLOW THROUGH THE DIE................... 2419
Patham, Bhaskar; Agashe, Nikhil; Davda, Rupali; Asthana, Himanshu
EXTRUSION OF HIGHLY POROUS FIBERS WITH CONTINUOUS AND SIZE ADJUSTABLE POROUS STRUCTURES...................................................................................... 2424
Nagarajan, Pratapkumar; Abbott, Kathryn; Yao, Donggang
EFFICIENCY GAINS AND CONTROL IMPROVEMENTS USING DIFFERENT BARREL HEATING TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS ................ 2429
Taylor, Bruce F.
NUMERICAL SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF FIBER ORIENTATION IN INJECTION MOLDING .................................................................................... 2434
Chiu, Hsien-Sen; Chou, Ya-Yuen; Yang, Wen-Li; Hsu, Chia-Hsiang; Yamabe, Masashi
TRUE 3D SIMULATION OF FLOW-INDUCED RESIDUAL STRESS IN INJECTION MOLDING ....................................................................................................................................... 2438
Chang, Rong-Yeu; Chang, Yuan-Rong; Peng, Yi-Hui; Yang, Wen-Hsien; Hsu, Chia-Hsiang
SHRINKAGE AND COOLING SIMULATION OF INJECTION MOLDED PARTS IN MELT SOLIDIFICATION PROCESSES......................................................................................... 2442
Chau, Shiu-Wu
A COMPRESSIBLE MODEL FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL MELT FILLING AND GAS PENETRATION IN GAS-ASSISTED INJECTION MOLDING PROCESSES................................ 2446
Chau, Shiu-Wu
BIREFRINGENCE DISTRIBUTION IN GAS-ASSISTED TUBULAR INJECTION MOLDINGS: SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENT........................................................................... 2451
Carrillo, Antonio; Isayev, Avraam
VALIDATION OF INJECTION MOLDING SIMULATION TO ACTUAL MOLDED PRODUCT ...................................................................................................................................... 2456
Gelotte, Ryan; Broadbent, Matthew
FULL 3D INJECTION MOLDING ANALYSIS AND MODELING TIPS FOR COMPLEX MODELS ......................................................................................................................................... 2461
Pyo, Byunggi
MOLD COOLING ANALYSIS FOR INJECTION MOLDING USING FAST MULTIPOLE METHOD......................................................................................................................................... 2466
Choi, Kwonil; Koo, Bon-Heung
BIREFRINGENCE, ANISOTROPIC SHRINKAGE AND LUMINANCE IN LIGHT GUIDE PLATES: MODELING AND EXPERIMENT ................................................................................... 2471
Isayev, Avraam; Lin, Tsui
A NOVEL APPROACH FOR PREDICTING BIREFRINGENCE OF OPTICAL PARTS ............... 2476Chang, Yuan-Rong; Chiu, Hsien-Sen; Yang, Wen-Hsien; Chang, Rong-Yeu
STUDY OF RESIDUAL BIREFRINGENCE IN INJECTION MOLDED LENSES .......................... 2480Wang, Pei; Lai, Huai
RESOLVING STRESS CRACKS BY INJECTION MOLDING SIMULATION AND BIREFRINGENCE ANALYSIS ....................................................................................................... 2485
Ni, Shijun
THREE-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATION OF INJECTION-COMPRESSION MOLDING PROCESSES .................................................................................................................................. 2490
Chau, Shiu-Wu
INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS OPTIMIZATION USING THE PROCESS MONITORING SYSTEM ................................................................................................................. 2495
Rhee, Byung-Ohk; Kang, Joong-Keun; Cho, Young-Kee; Chang, Hyung-Keun
CAVITY TEMPERATURE CONTROL DURING THE COOLING CYCLE IN AN INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE USING A PREDICTIVE CONTROLLER ................................ 2500
Hernandez, Jose; Dubay, R; Pramujati, B.
LUMINANCE OF INJECTION MOLDED V-GROOVE LIGHT GUIDE PLATE.............................. 2505Lin, Tsui-Hsun; Mehranpour, Milad; Isayev, Avraam
A STUDY ON THE HEATING AND COOLING CYCLE SYSTEM VIA VAPOR CHAMBER IN INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS ........................................................................ 2510
Tsai, Yu Pin; Lee, Ai Tsung; Hsu, Ray Quen
INJECTION MOLDING OF THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER ON ETCHED ALUMINUM: TAGUCHI OPTIMIZATION ....................................................................................... 2514
Fabrin, Petri; Hoikkanen, Maija; Vuorinen, Jyrki
EFFECT OF DYNAMIC MELT MANIPULATION AND FLOW INDUCED ORIENTATION ON BIAXIAL STRESS IN AN INJECTION MOLDED COUPON ......................... 2519
Layser, Gregory; Cassebeer, Aaron; Coulter, John
DEVELOPMENTS IN WATER ASSISTED INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS TECHNOLOGY AND SIMULATION. ............................................................................................. 2524
Polynkin, A.; Pittman, J. F. T.; Sienz, J.; Mulvaney-Johnson, Leigh; Brown, E.; Coates, P.
PENETRATION LENGTH, THICKNESS AND CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOR OF WATER-ASSISTED INJECTION MOLDED PART ........................................................................ 2529
Huang, Han-Xiong; Deng, Zhi-Wu; Liu, Xu-Hui
THE STUDY OF PARTICLE SIZE AND SURFACE TREATMENT OF NEXT GENERATION RADIOPAQUE FILLERS USED IN BIO-MEDICAL DEVICE APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................. 2534
O'Neil, Charles; Acquarulo, Lawrence; Mirji, Sunil; Listro, Tony; Driscoll, Stephen
MICROSTRUCTURE AND BIOSTABILITY OF BIOMEDICAL POLYURETHANE BLOCK COPOLYMERS WITH DIFFERENT SOFT SEGMENT CHEMISTRIES.......................... 2539
Hernandez, Rebeca; Weksler, Jadwiga; Padsalgikar, Ajay; Runt, James
VOLUME 5 APATITE-POLY(ETHER ETHERKETONE) NANO COMPOSITES: PROSTHESIS MATERIALS:SBF-CONDITIONED STUDY ................................................................................... 2544
Pramanik, Sumit; Kar, Kamal
RHEOLOGY-BASED PORE SIZE ESTIMATION IN POLYACRYLAMIDE HYDROGELS ................................................................................................................................. 2549
Wang, Jian; Ugaz, Victor
COLLABORATIVE NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR CONCURRENT MOLD DESIGN.................... 2553Jong, Wen-Ren; Wu, Chun Hsien; Liu, Hung Hsun; Chiang, Hwai Hai
A KNOWLEDGE-BASED NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR AN INTEGRATED MOLD-DESIGN PROCESS........................................................................................................................ 2558
Jong, Wen-Ren; Wu, Chun Hsien; Chen, Shia-Chung; Chiang, Hwai Hai
INTEGRATED TRUE 3D SIMULATION OF RAPID HEAT CYCLE MOLDING PROCESS....................................................................................................................................... 2563
Chiou, Yan-Chen; Chou, Ya-Yuen; Chiu, Hsien-Sen; Yu, Chau-Kai; Hsu, Chia-Hsiang
ANALYSIS AND VALIDATION OF MOLD DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR COOLING TIME AND RUNNER SIZING ......................................................................................................... 2567
Zombade, Nivant; Kazmer, David
THE EFFECT OF IMPLEMENTING HYBRID MOLD TEMPERATURE DEPENDANT HEAT CHARACTERISTICS ON THE ACCURACY OF 3D INJECTION MOLDING SIMULATION .................................................................................................................................. 2572
Cardon, Ludwig; Hinse, Cristoph
A SHRINKAGE PREDICTION IN RUBBER COMPRESSION MOULDING.................................. 2577Rodkwan, Supasit; Chookaew, Watcharapong; Na Ranong, Nuchanat; Raksiri, Chana; Eiamsa-Ard, Kunnayut
AN OPTIMIZATION APPROACH FOR POLYMER SHEETING DIE DESIGN ............................. 2581Mu, Yue
MECHANICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF HIGH STRENGTH, HIGH CONDUCTIVITY COPPER-NICKEL-SILICON-CHROME FOR MOLD TOOLING ....................... 2586
Shook, Tracy; Kusner, Robert; Veitch, Doug; Kuli, Jr., John
IMPROVING SURFACE FINISH QUALITY ON 3D PRINTED METAL TOOLING BY ALTERING INFILTRATION PRACTICES...................................................................................... 2591
Godbey, Brady; Angstadt, David
MANIPULATING THE ORIENTATION AT END OF FILL ............................................................. 2596Young, Brian
NUCLEATION AND CRYSTALLISATION OF PLA ...................................................................... 2600Li, Hongbo; Huneault, Michel
EXTRUDED PLA-LLDPE FILMS WITH BI-FUNCTIONAL BLEND MORPHOLOGY FORMED WITH A CONTINUOUS CHAOTIC BLENDER FOR BARRIER AND TOUGHNESS IMPROVEMENTS ................................................................................................... 2604
Zumbrunnen, David; Karmakar, Rajat
RHEOLOGICAL AND DEGRADATION PROPERTIES OF RENEWABLE RESOURCE POLYMER BLENDS....................................................................................................................... 2609
Conrad, Jason; Eickhoff, James; Harrison, Graham
DEVELOPMENT OF PLA/TPS BLENDS WITH IMPROVED DUCTILITY .................................... 2613Li, Hongbo; Chapleau, Nathalie; Huneault, Michael A.
MEASUREMENT OF THE GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE............................................. 2617Simon, Sindee
USING DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSES TO PROBE THE GLASSY STATE RESPONSE OF A SUB-TG ANNEALED MODEL EPOXY NETWORK ....................................... 2621
Holmes, Gale; Gale A. Holmes
THE GLASS TRANSITION IN FREELY-STANDING POLYMER FILMS...................................... 2629Roth, Connie; Dutcher, John
PHYSICS OF AMORPHOUS POLYMERS .................................................................................... 2631McKenna, Gregory
ION/POLYMER INTERACTIONS IN POLYELECTROLYTE GELS .............................................. 2634Horkay, Ferenc
OPENING THE PANDORA'S BOX TO FIND ELASTIC BREAKUP AS THE ORIGIN OF VARIOUS NONLINEAR FLOW BEHAVIOR OF ENTANGLED POLYMERS......................... 2639
Wang, Shi-Quing
VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIOR OF SULFONATED POLYSTYRENE IONOMERS ......................... 2642Weiss, Robert; Zhao, Hongying
INTERFACIAL INTERACTIONS IN POLYMER THIN FILMS AND POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES...................................................................................................................... 2645
Yang, Yong; Shen, Jiong; Yang, Jintao; Liu, Chuntai; Lee, L
NITROXIDE-MEDIATED CONTROLLED DEGRADATION OF POLYPROPYLENE ................... 2650Psarreas, Alexandros; McManus, Neil; Tzoganakis, Costas; Penlidis, Alexander
EFFECT ADDITIVES RESEARCH FOR POLYESTERS: UPSTREAM & DOWNSTREAM CONSIDERATIONS............................................................................................ 2655
Andrews, Stephen
IONIC LIQUIDS AS ADDITIVES FOR THERMOPLASTICS ......................................................... 2659Park, Ku-Il; Xanthos, Marino
PROCESSIBILITY AND END-USE PROPERTIES OF POLYPROPYLENE CLARIFIED BY A HIGH EFFICIENCY CLARIFIER........................................................................................... 2663
Maier, Ralph; Hild, David; Kristiansen, Magnus; Wunderlich, Wiebke
PREPARATION AND UV WEATHERING OF POLYETHYLENE NANOCOMPOSITES ............. 2668Valdes, Saul; Quintanilla, Maria Luisa; Cantu, Concepcion; Colunga, Juan Guillermo
WETTABILITY OF PHOTO GRAFTED DEEP-GROOVE POLYPROPYLENE FIBERS .............. 2672Zhu, Siqiang; Hirt, Douglas
DIFFUSIVITY MEASUREMENT OF A HYDROPHILIC MIGRATORY ADDITIVE IN IPP FILMS....................................................................................................................................... 2677
Zhu, Siqiang; Welsh, Noah; Hirt, Douglas
SURFACE PROPERTIES OF HYDROSILYLATED POLYOLEFINS ANNEALED IN SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE .......................................................................................... 2682
Tzoganakis, Costas; Zhu, Shuihan
EFFECT OF A POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE-MODIFIED POLYOLEFIN ADDITIVE ON THE EXTRUSION OF LLDPE ........................................................................................................ 2687
Tzoganakis, Costas; Zhu, Shuihan
PREPARATION OF GOLD NANOPARTICLES FILLED POLY DIMETHYL SILOXANE MEMBRANE FOR GAS SEPARATIONS AND ITS REVERSE SELECTIVE PHENOMENA ................................................................................................................................. 2692
Vedaiyan, Ramya; Harinath, Arvind Vyas; Lou, Jianzhong; Banerjee, Chandra; Sankar, Jag
SHAPE MEMORY ELASTOMERS PREPARED FROM IONOMER/ FATTY ACID SALT COMPOUNDS ...................................................................................................................... 2697
Kamieneski, Elise; Mandelbaum, Shlomo; Vemuri, Padma; Weiss, Robert
A COMPARISON STUDY OF INORGANIC FILLERS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF POLYPROPYLENE (PART 2) ........................................................................................................ 2701
Xia, Zhiyong; Prendes, Dennis
STUDY OF ORANGE PEEL PHENOMENA IN ROTATIONAL MOLDING................................... 2705Takacs, Elizabeth; Emami, Maryam; Vlachopoulos, John
THE CYCLE TIME AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ROTATIONAL MOULDED POLYETHYLENE PARTS PRODUCED USING INNOVATIVE ANODISED ALUMINIUM TOOLS ...................................................................................................................... 2710
Kearns, Mark; McCourt, Mark
GENERATING ALTERNATIVE TIME AND ENERGY SAVING PROCESSING CONCEPTS FOR ROTATIONAL FOAM MOLDING ..................................................................... 2715
Pop-Iliev, Remon
ANALYSIS OF ROTATIONAL MOULDING PROCESS PARAMETERS AND WARPAGE ON CYCLE TIMES...................................................................................................... 2720
Ianakiev, Anton; Lim, K. K.
AN INVESTIGATION ON THE EFFECTS OF A FINE-PARTICULATE FILLER ON THE PROPERTIES OF A ROTOMOLDING-GRADE POLYETHYLENE ...................................... 2725
Kanokboriboon, Alongkorn
ROTOMOLDING WITH MICROPELLETS WHEN USING ALUMINUM PIGMENTS .................... 2732Schoppe, Robert
ROTATIONAL MOOLDING OF LOW VISCOSITY METALLOCENE PP RESINS ....................... 2736Takacs, Elizabeth; Tanu Halim, Silvi; Vlachopoulos, John; Fell, Rainer; Diem, Herman
PLASTIC INTEGRAL HINGES; DESIGN, PROCESSING, AND FAILURE ANALYSIS .............. 2741Elleithy, Rabeh
FAILURE ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION - A NEW EUROPEAN SIG ........................................ 2745Spoormaker, Jan; Andreassen, Erik; Heidweiller, Anton
TRIARYL PHOSPHATES AS STRESS CRACK AGENTS — CASE STUDIES IN FAILURE ANALYSIS ..................................................................................................................... 2750
Edwards, Dale; Kasner, Alan
FAILURE ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION SIG002....................................................................... 2755Chonkaew, Wunpen; Brostow, Witold; Mirshams, Reza; Srivastava, Ashish
THE ROLE OF ANALYTICAL AND PHYSICAL METHODS IN PLASTICS FAILURE ANALYSIS ...................................................................................................................................... 2760
Ezrin, Myer; Lavigne, Gary; Dudley, Mark; Pinatti, Laura; Leek, Fiona
INFLUENCE OF PART THICKNESS, GLASS FIBRE CONTENT AND LINE ENERGY ON LASER TRANSMISSION WELDING OF POLYAMIDE MXD6 ............................................... 2766
Bates, Philip; Druart, Marie-Eve; Chen, Mingliang; Zak, Gene; Billiet, Johan
GAP BRIDGING IN LASER TRANSMISSION WELDING OF PA6 .............................................. 2771Chen, Mingliang; Zak, Gene; Bates, Phil; Baylis, Bobbye
LASER TRANSMISSION WELDING OF POLYAMIDE TUBES TO PLATES .............................. 2776Baylis, Bobbye; Daly, Paul; Herfurth, Hans
SURFACE DAMAGE THRESHOLD IN LASER TRANSMISSION WELDING OF POLYCARBONATE ....................................................................................................................... 2781
Chen, Mingliang; Zak, Gene; Bates, Phil; McLeod, Martin; Rouison, David
MICROSTRUCTURE OF THERMOPLASTIC LASER WELDED JOINTS.................................... 2786Al-Wohoush, Mohammad; Sánchez García, Santiago; Kamal, Musa
ANALYSIS OF WELD SEAM QUALITY FOR LASER TRANSMISSION WELDING OF THERMOPLASTICS BASED ON FLUID DYNAMICAL PROCESSES......................................... 2791
Fargas, Mireia; Wilke, Lars; Meier, Oliver; Potente, Helmut
A 3-D THERMAL MODEL OF LASER TRANSMISSION CONTOUR WELDING FOR A LAP JOINT ..................................................................................................................................... 2796
Mayboudi, Layla; Birk, A. M.; Zak, Gene; Bates, P. J.
COMPARING LASER TRANSMISSION WELDING PRINCIPLES ............................................... 2801Wilke, Lars; Potente, Helmut
MODELING THE RHEOLOGY AND ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION OF SHORT GLASS FIBERS SUSPENDED IN POLYMERIC FLUIDS: SIMPLE SHEAR FLOW.................... 2806
Eberle, Aaron; Baird, Donald; Wapperom, Peter
DYNAMICAL MECHANICAL AND DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF POLYPROPYLENE NANOCOMPOSITES .................................................................................... 2811
Wang, Yeh
INFLUENCE OF POLYMER MATRIX AND COUPLING AGENTS ON MELT FLOW BEHAVIOR OF WOOD FILLED POLYETHYLENE COMPOSITES.............................................. 2816
Hristov, Velichko; Ahmed, Fahim; Takacs, Elizabeth; Vlachopoulos, John
MELT RHEOLOGY OF HETEROGENEOUS POLYMER SYSTEMS ........................................... 2821Rohn, Charles; Bennett, Eric; Mazzeo, Fred
CRYSTALLINE POLYMER MICROGELS WITH SURFACE INTERACTIONS ............................ 2826Ling, Gerald; Shaw, Montgomery
RHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF WATER MOLECULES NANO-JET PRINTING PROCESS....................................................................................................................................... 2831
Kuo, Chi-Ying; Dai, Chifu; Chang, Rong-Yeu
FAILURE ANALYSIS OF A REFRIGERATOR COMPONENT BASED ON "DOE" & OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES...................................................................................................... 2836
Ventura, Gabrial; Shastri, Ranganath; Vega, Miguel Ángel
A SIX SIGMA APPROACH FOR ASSESSMENT OF INVESTMENT PLAN IN A PLASTICS PRODUCTION PLANT ................................................................................................ 2841
Ventura, Gabrial; Ventura, Gabrial; Shastri, Ranganath; Vega, Miguel Ángel
DESIGN RULES FOR INJECTION MOLDED PRODUCTS .......................................................... 2846Spoormaker, Jan; Heidweiller, Anton
UTILIZING THE POWER OF THREE TO ENHANCE STUDENT LEARNING. ............................ 2851Finlow, David
TEACHING MULTIPLE CLASS CAPSTONE PROJECTS ........................................................... 2856Koch, Paul; Young, Brian; Johnson, Bradley; Dropik, Martin
INTERACTIONS FOR A MORE COMPLETE DESIGN EXPERIENCE......................................... 2861Meckley, Jonathan
FAILURE ANALYSIS OF POLYPROPYLENE PIPE AND FITTINGS UTILIZED IN A PURIFIED WATER SYSTEM ......................................................................................................... 2864
Duvall, Donald
AN EXAMINATION OF FIELD FAILURES OF PLASTIC PIPING SYSTEM COMPONENTS IN POTABLE WATER APPLICATIONS ............................................................. 2871
Oliphant, Ken; Chung, Sarah; Kosari, Tony; Li, Tieqi; Vibien, Patrick; Zhang, Jingguo
LIFETIME AND SAFETY ASSESSMENT OF PE PRESSURE PIPES BASED ON FRACTURE MECHANICS FATIGUE TESTS ................................................................................ 2876
Pinter, Gerald; Haager, Markus; Lang, Reinhold
PLANE STRESS RAPID FRACTURE RESISTANCE OF PIPE GRADE PE: ESTIMATION FROM TENSILE DRAWING DATA ........................................................................ 2880
Ozbek, Pemra; Leevers, Patrick
A STATISTICAL APPROACH TO PLASTIC PIPE PRODUCTION .............................................. 2885Deveci, Suleyman; Gemici, Zafer; Oner, Mualla
AN EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIVE IMPACT OF COMMON POTABLE WATER DISINFECTANTS (CHLORINE, CHLORAMINES AND CHLORINE DIOXIDE) ON PLASTIC PIPING SYSTEM COMPONENTS................................................................................. 2894
Oliphant, Ken; Chung, Sarah; Vibien, Patrick; Zhang, Jingguo
NEW FLEX RING DIES IMPROVE THE THICKNESS TOLERANCES OF PIPES AND THUS SAVE MATERIAL ................................................................................................................ 2899
Gross, Heinz
PA 12: A MANUFACTURERS PERSPECTIVE ............................................................................. 2906Egnor, Ken; Jordan, David
EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF A NUMERICAL SIMULATION FOR PHASE DECOMPOSITION OF A BINARY POLYMER THIN FILM ON A PATTERNED SUBSTRATE .................................................................................................................................. 2916
Shang, Yingrui; Wei, Ming; Kazmer, David; Mead, Joey; Barry, Carol
RUBBER-ASSISTED EMBOSSING PROCESS............................................................................ 2921Nagarajan, Pratapkumar
HIGH-TEMPERATURE DE-MOLDING FOR CYCLE TIME REDUCTION IN HOT EMBOSSING .................................................................................................................................. 2926
Dirckx, Matthew; Taylor, Hayden; Hardt, David
SINGLE-STEP THROUGH-HOLE PUNCHING AND DOUBLE-SIDED FORMING OF MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES BY HOT EMBOSSING ....................................................................... 2931
Mazzeo, Aaron; Dirckx, Matthew; Hardt, David
INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE ON MICRO-FEATURE REPLICATION AT AMBIENT PRESSURE IN MICRO-MOLDING. .............................................................................. 2936
Thakur, Varun; Angstadt, David
A FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR sub-100 nm POLYMER INJECTION MOLDING .......................... 2941Angelov, Aleksandar; Coulter, John
HYBRID TOOLING TECHNOLOGIES AND STANDARDIZATION FOR THE MANUFACTURING OF INSERTS FOR MICRO INJECTION MOLDING ..................................... 2946
Tosello, Guido; Fillon, Bertrand; Azcarate, Sabino; Schoth, Andreas; Mattsson, Lars; Griffiths, Christian; Staemmler, Lutz; Bolt, Pieter Jan
SHAPE CHANGING MECHANISMS IN MICROPROFILE EXTRUSION. ..................................... 2951Yao, Donggang; Fu, Zhihong
PREPARATION OF NANOBLEND POLYMER BY POLYMERIZATION IN POLYMER AND ITS NANO CELLULAR FOAMS............................................................................................ 2956
Ohshima, Masahiro; Taki, Kentaro; Otsuka, Tetsuo
EFFECT OF NANO-CLAY ON THE MICROCELLULAR STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF HIGH INTERNAL PHASE EMULSION (HIPE) FOAMS .................................. 2960
Ahmed, M. Y. Serry; Lee, Yoon Hwan; Park, Chul; Atalla, Noureddine
MODELING OF EXPANSION OF EXTRUDED FILAMENTARY FOAM ....................................... 2965Zhu, Zhenjin; Wang, Jing; Park, Chul B.
FOAMING DYNAMICS OF IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS.................................................... 2970Guo, Zhihua; Wingert, Maxwell; Shen, Jiong; Lee, L.; Tomasko, David
SOLUBILITIES OF BLOWING AGENT BLENDS ......................................................................... 2976Li, Guangming; Leung, Siu Ning (Sunny); Wang, Jin
IMPACT OF APPROXIMATING THE INITIAL BUBBLE PRESSURE ON CELL NUCLEATION IN POLYMERIC FOAMING PROCESSES............................................................ 2982
Leung, Siu Ning (Sunny); Li, Hongbo; Park, Chul B.
EFFECTS OF SURFACE GEOMETRY OF NUCLEATING AGENTS ON HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION .............................................................................................. 2987
Leung, Siu Ning (Sunny); Park, Chul B.; Wong, Anson
THE EFFECT OF DENSITY PROFILE ON THE FLEXURAL MODULUS OF POLYMER FOAMS ........................................................................................................................ 2992
Rodrigue, Denis
A NEW APPROACH FOR THE INJECTION OF PHYSICAL BLOWING AGENTS IN FOAM EXTRUSION........................................................................................................................ 2997
Michaeli, Walter; Schumacher, Holger
ANALYSIS FOR PRESSURE PROFILE BEHAVIOR OF MIXTURES OF PS WITH R22 BLOWING AGENT IN A SINGLE SCREW EXTRUDER ............................................................... 3002
Lin, Kun-Chang; Liang, Ming-Tsai; Chen, Chia-Hsun; Kuan, Chen-Feng; Kuan, Hsu-Chiang
PRESSURE DROP THRESHOLD FOR NUCLEATION OF PS/CO2 FOAMING .......................... 3006Leung, Siu Ning (Sunny); Wong, Anson; Park, Chul B.
STUDY ON SORPTION AND DESORPTION OF PENTANE IN POLYSTYRENE AND POLYPROPYLENE ........................................................................................................................ 3011
Zhang, Xinghua; Zhu, Zhenjin; Park, Chul; Lee, E. K.; Chen, Nan; Naguib, H. E.
COMPARISON OF CARBON NANOFIBERS AND ACTIVATED CARBON ON CARBON DIOXIDE FOAMING OF POLYSTYRENE .................................................................... 3016
Guo, Zhihua; Yang, Jintao; Wingert, Maxwell; Tomasko, David; Lee, L.; Lan, Jyh-Yee
EXTRUSION FOAMING BEHAVIORS OF PET WITH CO2 .......................................................... 3020Zheng, Wenge; Lee, Patrick; Park, Chul B.
ADDITIVES FOR IMPROVING PROCESSING AND PROPERTIES OF PLA .............................. 3025Cygan, Zuzanna; Singh, Mohit; Seshadri, Sri
EFFECT OF MULTIPLE SHEAR HISTORIES ON RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR AND DEVOLATILIZATION OF POLY(ETHER ETHER KETONE) ........................................................ 3031
Galloway, Jeffrey; Hoffman, Richard; Bhatt, Sanjiv
OPTIMIZING THE REACTION INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS USING POLYDICYCLOPENTADIENE ....................................................................................................... 3036
Karanam, Sreepadaraj; Kim, Sung Dug; Ding, Tianhua; Juikar, Vishvajit; Fonseca, Rodney
EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE ON SURFACE TENSION OF POLYSTYRENE IN SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE.......................................................... 3040
Park, Hyuk Sang; Park, C. B.; Tzoganakis, Costas.; Chen, P.
APPRAISEMENT OF THE ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OF THE CHEMICAL RESISTANT LAMINATE IN PRODUCTS ...................................................................................... 3045
Sinelnikova, Rakhil
ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS CRAZING IN POLYSTYRENE: THE ROLES OF CHAIN LENGTH AND ARCHITECTURE IN CRAZE INITIATION ............................................................. 3048
De Focatiis, Davide; Buckley, C. Paul; Hutchings, Lian
DETERMINATION OF THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF A PVC COATED WIRE WITH A NEW CLAMPING FIXTURE FOR ROTATIONAL RHEOMETERS ................................. 3053
Plog, Jan; Nijman, Jint; Oldoerp, Klaus
CARBON DIOXIDE AND WATER VAPOR PERMEABILITY OF POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE AND FOAMS ................................................................................................. 3054
Guo, Zhihua; Lee, L.; Tomasko, David
WETTING BEHAVIOR OF POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE (PDMS) IONOMER ON SILICA SURFACE .......................................................................................................................... 3060
Zhai, Xiaowen; Swier, Steven; Schmidt, R. G.; Weiss, R. A.
THE USE OF SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY FOR ANALYSIS OF SKIN THICKNESS IN POLYVINYL CHLORIDE ..................................................................................... 3064
Hoekstra, Nicole
CHEMILUMINESCENCE AND FLUORESCENCE IMAGING OF VIRGIN AND REPROCESSED GRADES OF NYLON 6,6 AND POLYCARBONATE ....................................... 3069
Hoeller, Timothy
NEW POLYURETHANIC MATERIALS DERIVED FROM DIBENZYL MONOMERS: ELASTOMERS, FILMS AND BLENDS.......................................................................................... 3076
Prisacariu, Cristina
ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIVE EFFECTS OF LOADING AGENTS AND THEIR INTERACTIONS AS A FUNCTION OF CORE RESISTIVITY IN THERMOSET POLYURETHANE FOAM PARTS ................................................................................................. 3079
Brittingham, Daniel
CHEMICAL RESISTANCE AT DIFFERENT STRESS LEVELS OF MATERIALS WITH ACTIVE PACKAGING ADDITIVES................................................................................................ 3084
Courter, Justin; Gill, Matt
CHARACTERIZATION OF MODEL URETHANES AND UREAS BASED ON HYDROGENATED METHYLENEDIPHENYLDIISOCYANATE VIA SOLUTION AND SOLID STATE NMR SPECTROSCOPY ........................................................................................ 3088
Dempsey, Daniel
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A CATIONIC MONOMER WITH ATRP INITIATION SITES.......................................................................................................................... 3092
Slye, Kory
DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF POLYOLEFIN FIBROUS SHEET MATERIAL LAMINATES AS ANTI-BALLISTIC PROTECTIVE MATERIAL ................................ 3097
Agim, Ikenna; Tusubira, Roselyne
OPTIMIZATION OF ROTATIONAL MOLDING CYCLE THROUGH THERMAL DATA ACQUISITION................................................................................................................................. 3102
Barilla, Adam; Ranck, Zachariah
THE POSITION OF HIGH SHEARED MATERIAL AND ITS EFFECT ON THE PROGRESSIVE WELD LINE STRENGTH OF AN INJECTION MOLDED PART ........................ 3107
Welsh, Kevin; Willis, Jason
EFFECTS OF DRYING CONDITIONS ON THE MORPHOLOGY AND PERFORMANCE OF SULFONATED POLY (ARYLENE ETHER SULFONE) COPOLYMER FILMS FOR PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANES.............................................. 3112
Lee, Myoungbae; McGrath, James; Baird, Donald
BENCHMARKING THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS AGAINST TRADITIONAL RUBBERS IN AUTOMOTIVE BODY MOUNT APPLICATIONS ................................................... 3117
Loeffler, Matthew
A TEST APPARATUS FOR CHARACTERIZING HIGH STRAIN RATE PROPERTIES OF NATURAL RUBBER ................................................................................................................ 3122
Jansen, Glenn; Blake, Amy