Ethylene copolymers as sintering enhancers and impact modifiers for rotational molding of polyethylene
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of blending minor amounts of ethylene styrene Interpolymer or ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) with polyethylene on cycle times and impact strength in rotational molding. The blends sintered significantly faster than polyethylene. The sintering rates were primarily influenced by the melting points of the minor blend components, and not by differences in melt viscosity and/or elasticity at low shear rate. Blending Interpolymer or EVA with polyethylene resulted in improved environmental stress crack resistance and decreased flexural modulus. In rotational molding, blending Interpolymer or EVA with polyethylene generally resulted in faster bubble removal, more uniform thickness and shorter cycle times. Ductile failure was generally observed at the peak mean failure energy (MFE). The blend containing Interpolymer yielded significantly increased MFE, possibly because the Interpolymer was compatible with polyethylene and was very well dispersed.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".