scholarly journals IR SPECTRA OF γ-IRRADIATED NANOCOMPOSITES ULTRA-HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE / α-SiO2

2021 ◽  
pp. 60-65
Author(s):  
R.S. Ismayilova ◽  
M.M. Kuliev ◽  
G.A. Akhundova

The effect on concentration of the nanofiller α-SiO2 filler and irradiation on the FTIR spectra of pure films polymer (ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE)) and doped them this α-SiO2 with different concentration (0, 1, 3, 5 vol.%) were investigated using FTIR technique. The samples were irradiated for different doses like 0, 50, and 100 kGy by 60Co source with a dose rate of approximately 3.3∙10-3 kGy/h at room temperature. The correlation of absorption bands with occurrence of corresponding groups was carried out. The occurrence of a series of a characteristic absorptions bands of composites was shown.

2020 ◽  
pp. 77-78

The use of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMW PE) for the manufacture of various parts, in particular cuffs for hydraulic drives, is proposed. The properties and advantages of UHMW PE in comparison with other polyethylene materials are considered. Keywords ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene, hydraulic pump, hydraulic motor, hydraulic control valve, hydraulic oil, low temperature. [email protected]


2020 ◽  
Vol 92 (9) ◽  
pp. 1521-1536
Author(s):  
Clive Bucknall ◽  
Volker Altstädt ◽  
Dietmar Auhl ◽  
Paul Buckley ◽  
Dirk Dijkstra ◽  
...  

AbstractFatigue tests were carried out on compression mouldings supplied by a leading polymer manufacturer. They were made from three batches of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) with weight-average relative molar masses, ${\overline{M}}_{\mathrm{W}}$, of about 0.6 × 106, 5 × 106 and 9 × 106. In 10 mm thick compact tension specimens, crack propagation was so erratic that it was impossible to follow standard procedure, where crack-tip stress intensity amplitude, ΔK, is raised incrementally, and the resulting crack propagation rate, da/dN, increases, following the Paris equation, where a is crack length and N is number of cycles. Instead, most of the tests were conducted at fixed high values of ΔK. Typically, da/dN then started at a high level, but decreased irregularly during the test. Micrographs of fracture surfaces showed that crack propagation was sporadic in these specimens. In one test, at ΔK = 2.3 MPa m0.5, there were crack-arrest marks at intervals Δa of about 2 μm, while the number of cycles between individual growth steps increased from 1 to more than 1000 and the fracture surface showed increasing evidence of plastic deformation. It is concluded that sporadic crack propagation was caused by energy-dissipating crazing, which was initiated close to the crack tip under plane strain conditions in mouldings that were not fully consolidated. By contrast, fatigue crack propagation in 4 mm thick specimens followed the Paris equation approximately. The results from all four reports on this project are reviewed, and the possibility of using fatigue testing as a quality assurance procedure for melt-processed UHMWPE is discussed.


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