27th Polymer Processing Society Annual Meeting 2011 (PPS-27) Marrakech, Morocco 10 - 14 May 2011 Volume 1 of 5 ISBN: 978-1-5108-4260-1 Printed from e-media with permission by: Curran Associates, Inc. 57 Morehouse Lane Red Hook, NY 12571 Some format issues inherent in the e-media version may also appear in this print version. Copyright© (2011) by Polymer Processing Society All rights reserved. Printed by Curran Associates, Inc. (2017) For permission requests, please contact Polymer Processing Society at the address below. Polymer Processing Society 810 E. 10th St. Lawrence, KS 66044 USA Phone: +1-800-627-0326 +1-785-865-9403 Fax: +1-785-843-6153 [email protected] Additional copies of this publication are available from: Curran Associates, Inc. 57 Morehouse Lane Red Hook, NY 12571 USA Phone: 845-758-0400 Fax: 845-758-2633 Email: [email protected] Web: www.proceedings.com TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME 1 PLENARY SESSIONS MECHANICAL PERFORMANCES OF POLYMERS ................................................................................................................................1 Han E.H. Meijer FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS: THE IMPORTANCE OF FUNCTIONALITY, TOPOLOGY, AND TOPOGRAPHY .................................................................................................................................................................................................3 JM. J. Frechet IMPROVEMENT OF BARRIER PROPERTIES OF POLYESTERS USING NANOCLAY ............................................................ N/A Pierre J. Carreau IN SITU OBSERVATION OF THE FOAMING PROCESSES UNDER EXTENSIONAL STRESS .....................................................4 Chul B. Park, A. Wong POLYMERIC NANOCOMPOSITES: AN OVERVIEW FROM SCIENCE TO TECHNOLOGY........................................................5 M. Okamoto EXTENSIONAL RHEOMETRY OF POLYMER MELTS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.............................................................6 J. Maia, R. Andradea, P. Harrisa, T. Dias, F. Alves, J. Nobrega, J. Covas CHALLENGES AND PRESSURES ON THE WORLD ENERGY SUPPLIES: THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEW RESEARCH .............................................................................................................................................................................................7 S. Jaffer DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHLY TRANSPARENT POLYPROPYLENE SHEETS .................................................................................8 Toshitaka Kanai, Akira Funaki, Kaname Kondo, Hiroshi Odaka 1 – BLOW MOLDING, THERMOFORMING AND ROTOMOLDING THE PROCESSABILITY AND MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE OF BLOW MOULDED MILK BOTTLE MATERIALS COMPRISING OF VIRGIN AND RECYCLED HDPE (RHDPE) ....................................................................................9 Leigh Mulvaney-Johnson, A. L. Kelly, P. D. Coates, J. Crick, A. Moorthy, P. Hale REACTIVE ROTATIONAL MOLDING OF POLYURETHANE: UNDERSTANDING OF CURING PROCESS AND SPH SIMULATION OF THE FLOW..................................................................................................................................................18 Sylvain Riviere, S. Khelladi, Sedigheh Farzaneh, Abbas Tcharkhtchi STUDY ON INFLUENCING FACTORS IN MICRO THERMOFORMING AND MICRO BLOW MOLDING .............................25 Markus Heilig, Marc Schneider, Heinz Dinglreiter, Matthias Worgull CORRELATIONS BETWEEN PROCESSING CONDITIONS, STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF BI- ORIENTED BLOWN FILMS.........................................................................................................................................................................29 Olga Carneiro, Jose Covas, Catarina Dominngues ROTATIONAL MOULDING OF PA6 AND PBT NANOCOMPOSITES ...............................................................................................33 Antonio Greco, Emanuela Cal, Alfonso Maffezzoli, C. Massaro, R. Terzi, A. Salomi THERMOFORMING CONCEPTS FOR POLYPROPYLENE RESINS.................................................................................................43 Marcelo Farah SELECTED PROPERTIES OF AXIS-SYMMETRICAL EXTRUDED PRODUCTS MADE OF PVC AND MODIFIED WITH BLOWING AGENTS ....................................................................................................................................................44 Tomasz Garbacz, A. Rudawska THE EFFECT OF ACCELERATED AGING ON THE PROPERTIES OF A- C:H THIN FILMS OBTAINED BY THE PECVD PROCESS FROM RECYCLED PET FROM PACKAGING............................................................................................49 Eder Oliveira, Sandra Cruz ENHANCED BARRIER FOR LIGHTWEIGHT-PET-BOTTLES ...........................................................................................................50 Walter Michaeli, Tim Arping, Karim Bahroun, Henrik Behm, Christian Hopmann, F. Von Fragstein 2 - COMPOSITES A NEW THERMOFORMING CFRP: CF MAT/HIGH-FLOW PP COMPOSITE ................................................................................56 Takahiro Kawasaki, Shotaro Nishituji, Takashi Inoue, Noriyuki Hirano, Masahiro Hashimoto, Masato Homma NOVEL THERMOSETTING WOOD COMPOSITES WITH ANTISTATIC BEHAVIOR.................................................................58 Michaela Gedan-Smolka, Antje Taeger, B. Lilie, Detlef Krug DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL ADVANCED COMPOSITES WITH POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE MATRICES .................................................................................................................................................................62 Luigi Torre, Marco Monti, Maurizio Natali, Jose M. Kenny, Marco Rallini REINFORCEMENT OF POLYPROPYLENE-WOOD FIBER COMPOSITE BY BACTERIA CELLULOSE : PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE MANUFACTURING AND PERFORMANCE ..................................................................70 Fayal Mijiyawa, Bohuslav V. Kokta, Demagna Koffi, Fouad Erchiqui PROCESSING, STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES AF LAMINATES MANUFACTURED VIA A RAPID OUT- OF-AUTOCLAVE TECHNIQUE..................................................................................................................................................................80 Arthur Wilkinson, Richard Day, Mohsen Zakikhani, Leon Davies, Alan Nesbitt, Bronwyn Fox COMPOUNDING OF POLYPROPYLENE WITH NATURAL FIBRES: IMPACT ON FIBRE DIMENSIONS AND IN SITU OBSERVATIONS OF FIBRE RUPTURE BY RHEO-OPTICS ......................................................................................83 Anne Le Duc, Anne Perez, Tatiana Budtova, Bruno Vergnes INFLUENCE OF A THERMAL TREATMENT ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FLAX FIBRES .......................................93 Fanny Destaing, Jean-Paul Jernot, Jol Breard, Patricia Jouannot-Chesney, Moussa Gomina NON LINEAR ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF EPOXY RESINS LOADED WITH METALLIC FILLERS...............................99 Youssef Faska A NEW MIXED NUMERICAL/EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUE FOR TRANSVERSAL PERMEABILITY OF FIBROUS REINFORCEMENTS.................................................................................................................................................................100 Riccardo Gennaro, Antonio Greco, Alfonso Maffezzoli HALOGEN-FREE FLAME RETARDED POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITES BY ELECTRON INDUCED REACTIVE PROCESSING..........................................................................................................................................................................110 Sven Wiessner, Carsten Zschech, Uwe Gohs, Udo Wagenknecht EFFECTS OF FIBER VARIABILITY, SIZE AND CONTENT ON THE FUSION CHARACTERISTICS OF WOOD PARTICLE-REINFORCED HIGH-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE.........................................................................................116 Mourad Saddem, Hassine Bouafif, Ahmed Koubaa, Patrick Perr, Bernard Riedl, Alain Cloutier MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF EXTRUDED FLEXIBLE PVC/WOOD FLOUR AND PVC- NBR/WOOD FLOUR COMPOSITES ................................................................................................................................................................................121 Taher Azdast, Ebrahim Ghaleh, Ata Jalili Kohne Shahri, Amir Hossein Behravesh, Peyman Shahi FOAMED CONTINUOUS GLASS FIBER COMPOSITES: EFFECTS OF THERMOPLASTIC CELLULAR MATRIX ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES ..........................................................................................................................................122 Luigi Sorrentino, Marco Aurilia, Livia Cafiero, Salvatore Cioffi, Salvatore Iannace EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF NITRILE BUTADIENE RUBBER (NBR) ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF PVC/WOOD FLOUR COMPOSITES..........................................................................................126 Taher Azdast, Ata Jalili Kohne Shahri, Ebrahim Ghaleh, Amir Hossein Behravesh, Samarand Rash Ahmadi EFFECT OF REPEATED LOADING ON MOISTURE ABSORPTION OF FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER COMPOSITES ...............................................................................................................................................................................................130 Youssef K. Hamidi, Levent Aktas, M. Cengiz Altan OPTIMISING THE REPROCESSING CONDITIONS THROUGH INJECT MOULDING USING RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY.....................................................................................................................................................................140 Salah Elsheikhi, Leigh Mulvaney-Johnson, Felician Campean ADAPTATION OF THE RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING (RTM) PROCESS TO THE MANUFACTURE OF THERMOPLASTIC-BASED COMPOSITES............................................................................................................................................150