Service Life Prediction of Polymers and Plastics Exposed to Outdoor Weathering discusses plastics and polymers and their unique applications, from sealants used in construction, to polymer composites used in planes. While these materials are important enablers for advanced technologies, exposure to weather changes the very properties of plastics that make them so useful. This book reviews current research needs and provides a consensus roadmap of the scientific barriers to validated predictive models for the response of polymers and plastics to outdoor exposure.
Despite extensive efforts over the past 20-30 years, testing of polymeric materials in accelerated or natural weathering conditions and the interpretation of the weathering results still require substantial improvements. This book represents the state-of-the-art in the prediction techniques available and in development. Engineers and materials scientists working in this field will be able to use the content of this book to assess the strengths and challenges of a range of different methods and approaches.
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Table of Contents
1. Service Life Prediction: Why Is This so Hard?
2. Weathering Standards and Service Life Prediction of Polymers: How Can We Bridge the Gap?
3. Experimental and Derived Approaches to Service Life Prediction Models
4. Natural Weathering Testing and 401(k)'s
5. New Tools for Service Life Prediction and Risk Minimization for Exterior Building Product Finishes
6. Highly Accelerated UV Weathering: When and How to Use it
7. Assessing the Effects of Accelerated Weathering Stresses Used to Predict Service Life
8. Spectral Power Distributions in Accelerated and Natural Weathering Tests and Their Impact on Aerospace Coating Service Life Prediction
9. Predicting Field Degradation of Sealants Using Accelerated Tests from the NIST Solar Sphere
10. Prospects of 2D-Luminescence Spectroscopy for Aging Investigations of the Embedding EVA Polymer in PV Modules: Revealing DLO Conditions
11. Effect of Temperature on Radiation-Induced Degradation of EPDM
12. Combination of Material Characterization and Cyclic Fatigue Testing for Investigation of Elastomer Aging
13. Multivariate Statistical Process Control of Accelerated Weathering Chambers
14. Effect of UV Radiation on Surface Mechanical Properties of NanoTiO2-Acrylic Urethane Coatings
15. A Study of Critical Strain and Nanomechanical Test Methods as Predictive Tools for Coating Changes in Weathering
16. Non-Free Radical Oxidation Mechanisms
17. Summary of the Discussions Following Each Session of the 6th International Conference on Service Life Prediction of Polymer Materials: Over the Horizon
Appendix Service Life Prediction Series Cumulative Table of Contents
