Test Method for Determination of the Blooming of Brominated Flame Retardants onto the Surface of Plastic Materials by Ion Chromatography

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Ion Chromatography ◽  
Flame Retardants ◽  
Brominated Flame Retardants ◽  
Test Method ◽  
Plastic Materials

Interference of Sb(III) in the Determination of Hexavalent Chromium in Thermoplastic Matrices

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 (1) ◽  
pp. 000345-000351
Author(s):  
Sophia S. Lau ◽  
Joe P. Kuczynski
Keyword(s):  
Hexavalent Chromium ◽  
Flame Retardants ◽  
Test Method ◽  
Polymer Matrices ◽  
Antimony Trioxide ◽  
False Negatives ◽  
Total Chromium ◽  
Adverse Health Effects ◽  
The Eu

Due to the adverse health effects of hexavalent chromium, Cr(VI), pigments and other materials containing Cr(VI) were largely banned for use in electrotechnical products under the EU RoHS Directive [1]. While there are several effective methods to determine the presence of total chromium in electrotechnical plastic matrices, a validated compliance test method that is capable of discerning Cr(VI) from the non-regulated forms of Cr(III) is not yet available. One of the challenges in developing a standardized compliance test for Cr(VI) is the low recovery of Cr(VI) compounds from polymer matrices This study identified antimony trioxide (ATO), a common synergist added to enhance the ignition resistance of brominated flame retardants (BFRs), as a source of matrix interference in the quantitative determination of hexavalent chromium extracted from polymer matrices. ATO reduces hexavalent chromium to trivalent chromium prior to complexation of Cr(VI) with diphenylcarbazide (DPC) leading to false negatives. EDTA was found to be an efficient reagent for Sb(III) complexation, thereby suppressing the reduction of Cr(VI) and enabling quantitative Cr(VI) determination in the presence of ATO.

Computational mechanical property determination of viscoelastic/plastic materials from nanoindentation creep test data

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 1245-1257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianjun Wang ◽  
Timothy C. Ovaert
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Mechanical Property ◽  
Finite Element ◽  
Test Data ◽  
Plastic Material ◽  
Test Method ◽  
Element Formulation ◽  
Unknown Parameters ◽  
Plastic Materials

Nanoindentation is a widely accepted test method for materials characterization. On account of the complexity of contact deformation behavior, design of parametric constitutive models and determination of the unknown parameters is challenging. To address the need for identification of mechanical properties of viscoelastic/plastic materials from nanoindentation data, a combined numerical finite element/optimization-based indentation modeling tool was developed, fully self-contained, and capable of running on a PC as a stand-alone executable program. The approach uses inverse engineering and formulates the material characterization task as an optimization problem. The model development consists of finite element formulation, viscoelastic/plastic material models, heuristic estimation to obtain initial solution boundaries, and a gradient-based optimization algorithm for fast convergence to extract mechanical properties from the test data. A four-parameter viscoelastic/plastic model is presented, then a simplified three-parameter model with more rapid convergence. The end result is a versatile tool for indentation simulation and mechanical property analysis.

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