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Le Gac, Pierre-yves; Le Saux, V.; Paris, M; Marco, Y.. |
Polymers are widely used in marine environments due to their excellent properties and good weathering resistance. Despite this extensive use, their long term behaviour in such an aggressive environment is still not well known. To assess the polymer durability within reasonable durations, it is essential to perform accelerated ageing tests to accelerate the degradation kinetics but without any modification of the degradation process. This study therefore proposes and validates accelerated ageing tests to study marine ageing of a silica-filled chloroprene rubber (CR) used for offshore applications. Several accelerated ageing protocols are investigated for temperatures ranging from 20 to 80 degrees C in renewed natural seawater. The ageing consequences are... |
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Palavras-chave: Chloroprene rubber; Degradation; Sea water; Silica; Accelerated ageing; Natural ageing. |
Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00073/18429/20232.pdf |
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Broudin, M.; Le Gac, Pierre-yves; Le Saux, V.; Champy, C.; Robert, G.; Charrier, P.; Marco, Y.. |
Diffusion of water in polyamide 6.6 has been characterized for a wide range of temperatures (from 25 to 80 °C) and various humidities using dynamic vapor sorption machine. The decrease in glass transition temperature (Tg) has also been measured using DMA tests. As usually observed, PA66 absorbs a large amount of water (up to 5% at 90%RH) with a Fickian behavior with a diffusion coefficient that depends on water activity for all temperatures. Moreover, it appears that the diffusion coefficient for tests performed below Tg is almost independent of the water activity whereas a strong dependency is observed above Tg. This behavior is to be compared to a large decrease of Tg with the absorption of water. The increase of the water diffusion can therefore be... |
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Palavras-chave: Water absorption; Free volume; Polyamide; Modeling. |
Ano: 2015 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00260/37148/35794.pdf |
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