Effect of molecular structure and rheology on the compression foam molding of ethylene‐α‐olefin copolymers
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The morphology and mechanical properties of foams made out of a series of ethylene‐α‐olefin copolymers having well‐characterized rheological properties were investigated. A compression foaming molding technique was implemented, using azodicarbonamide as the blowing agent. The polymers differed in the amount of comonomer contained (resulting in a range of densities), type of comonomer (octene vs. butene) and molecular weight, resulting in variable thermal properties and different rheological responses under shear and extensional flow. The results showed that the majority of the octene‐based copolymers with comparable rheological properties had similar foam morphology. A distinct behaviour was observed for the butene‐based copolymer, as well as the octene‐containing one having the lowest density and lowest melting/crystallization points. The poor foamability of these grades was attributed to their differences in extensional and thermal properties, respectively. Increasing density resulted in a higher secant modulus of the foamed samples. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 2011. © 2011 Society of Plastics Engineers
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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