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Issues Relating to the Mechanical Property Characterization of Sealant

July 1, 2004
Author(s)
Christopher C. White, Donald L. Hunston
fective characterization of the mechanical properties of sealant requires knowledge of the non-linear complex viscoelastic properties. Additionally, all cured sealants, typically elastomeric materials, exhibit the Mullins effect, which also must be

The Effect of Movement During Cure of a Silicone Sealant

March 8, 2004
Author(s)
Christopher C. White, Donald L. Hunston
Movement of the building joint sealant during cure is thought to affect the fully cured mechanical properties. To examine this potential effect, a one-part silicone sealant was cured from 10 h to 168 h after sample creation before the onset of movement

Reliability-Based Method for Service Life Prediction of Materials

September 17, 2003
Author(s)
Christopher C. White, Jonathan W. Martin, S F. Weber, L Shultz
Standard test methods, such as ASTM C719, evaluate sealant performance though threshold test measurements. This method and its derivatives do not offer reliable predictions of in-service performance. This presentation will detail efforts to move away from

Mechanical Behavior of Caulks and Sealants

January 15, 2003
Author(s)
Donald L. Hunston, Christopher C. White
ulks and Sealants are important examples of consumer products where performance depends critically on rheological properties. This work describes the development of a testing and modeling procedure to characterize the basic mechanical properties of such

Merging Weather Data With Materials Response Data During Outdoor Exposure

October 1, 2002
Author(s)
R S. Williams, A A. Sanadi, Corey C. Halpin, Christopher C. White
As part of an outdoor exposure protocol for a studying the weathering of sealants, a full weather station was installed at the Forest Products Laboratory field test site near Madison, Wisconsin. Temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, ultraviolet (UV)

Viscoelastic Characterization of Sealant Materials

September 18, 2002
Author(s)
Donald L. Hunston, Christopher C. White
Polymeric sealants are an important example of a major consumer product where the performance depends critically on rheological properties. The work here developed a testing and modeling procedure to characterize the basic mechanical properties of sealant

Development of a Reliability-Based Method of Service Life Prediction for Sealant

February 1, 2002
Author(s)
Christopher C. White, C Buch, Mark R. VanLandingham
Standard test methods, such as ASTM C719, evaluate sealant performance though threshold test measurements. This method and its derivatives do not offer reliable predictions of in-service performance. This article will detail efforts to move away from the

Probe Diffusion in Thin PS Free-Standing Films

November 1, 2001
Author(s)
Y Pu, H White, Miriam Rafailovich, J Sokolov, A Patel, Christopher C. White, Wen-Li Wu, V Zaitsev, S A. Schwarz
DSIMS was performed to determine the dynamics of thin free standing polystyrene films by investigating the probe diffusion in high molecular weight polymer matrix. It is found that the temperature dependence of the diffusion of small molecular probes can

Measuring T g in Ultra-Thin Polymer Films With an Excimer Fluorescence Technique

September 1, 2001
Author(s)
Christopher C. White, Kalman D. Migler, Wen-Li Wu
An excimer fluorescence technique has been applied to the measurement of T g of ultra-thin polystyrene films. This technique utilizes an excimer-forming molecule with fluorescent emission in two wavelength bands. The intensity ratio of these bands is a

Nanomechanical Measurements of Polymeric Systems

March 13, 2001
Author(s)
Mark R. VanLandingham, Christopher C. White, Xiaohong Gu, Tinh Nguyen
Durability, in terms of service life, is often related to the failure due to service conditions of an unacceptable percentage of a product population. In many cases, this percentage is much less than 1 %, and thus the factors affecting early times-to

A Novel Method to Determine the Mechanical Properties of Ultra-Thin Films

April 1, 1998
Author(s)
Christopher C. White, Wen-Li Wu
Recent experimental results based on x-ray reflectivity, ellipsometry and positron annihilation spectroscopy, etc. have demonstrated that physical properties of polymer films thinner than one micron may deviate significantly from the expected bulk values
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