White Papers Importance of Specifications When Outsourcing Manufacturing It is very common to investigate failures where the cause is the use of an…Antoine Rios, Ph.D.January 19, 2023
White Papers Temperature Dependence of Plastics: The Glass Transition The molecular structure of polymeric materials leads to temperature dependency and critical thermal transitions. This…Jeffrey A. JansenJanuary 19, 2023
White Papers Identification of PVC in NBR using Thermogravimetric Analysis Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) is a common thermal analysis technique that provides composition information for polymeric…Jeffrey A. JansenJanuary 19, 2023
White Papers Proset Rubber Gasket Failure There has been a rash of failures involving chlorinated poly(vinyl chlorine)(PVC) pipes that were used…Paul Gramann, PhD, PEJanuary 19, 2023
White Papers Design Like You Mean It: Ultrasonic Welding The success of manufacturing and assembling of plastic parts depends heavily on the design of…The Madison GroupJanuary 18, 2023
White Papers Yellowing of Polycarbonate Because of the molecular structure of polycarbonate, the polymer is susceptible to yellowing through a…Jeffrey A. JansenJanuary 16, 2023
White Papers Fractography: Crack Features Can Change as the Crack Propagates I completed a failure analysis on a safety clip, which had failed an impact test…Jeffrey A. JansenJanuary 16, 2023
White Papers Polyurethanes: Where Rubber Meets the Road Part 3 – When Things Go Wrong In the first two parts of this series, we examined the underlying chemistry and some…Bruce Davis, Ph.D.January 16, 2023
White Papers Polyurethanes: Where Rubber Meets the Road – Part 2 – It’s Not All That Hard Whenever polyurethane materials are discussed they tend to be categorized in terms of their hardness.…Bruce Davis, Ph.D.January 16, 2023
White Papers The Importance of Properly Preparing Resins for Injection Molding The power of polymers is in their molecular weight. It is critical that manufacturers not…Melissa L. Kurtz, M.S.January 13, 2023