Thermal analysis of foamed polyethylene rotational molding followed by internal air temperature profiles
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this study, the internal air temperature (IAT) profile was measured to analyze the thermal behavior of a polymer for a complete rotational molding cycle. Foamed and unfoamed linear low density polyethylene parts were produced by biaxial rotational molding using a chemical blowing agent based on azodicarbonamide at different concentrations (0, 0.15, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, and 1.0% wt) with different oven temperatures (270, 280, and 285°C). The analysis proposed is based on the temperature profiles and their derivatives to better determine the different transitions occurring in a complete molding cycle. The analysis is completed with differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) to get more information related to the dynamics of the different processing stages like polymer melting, exothermic decomposition of the chemical blowing agent, and polymer crystallization. The results obtained show a good agreement between the melting and crystallization temperatures from IAT derivatives and DSC. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 58:E235–E241, 2018. © 2017 Society of Plastics Engineers
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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 | 0.001 | 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.
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