Session: Mechanisms of Aging (Spring 179th Technical Meeting)


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Mechanisms of Aging

Wednesday, April 20, 2011: 8:00 AM-11:00 AM

Akron/Summit Ballroom (Akron/Fairlawn Hilton Hotel)

Chair:

Larry Evans, Transportation Research Center, Inc.

Co-Chair:

Ed Terrill, Akron Rubber Development Laboratory

8:00 AM

Thermal and Oxidative Aging Chemistry of Sulfur Networks

Fred Ignatz-Hoover and Byron To, Solutia, Akron, OH

8:45 AM

Polymers/Organic Materials Aging Overview

Robert Bernstein, Organic Materials Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

9:15 AM

Characterization of Antioxidants Reaction Mechanisms During Thermal Oxidative Aging and the Role of Intermediates

Ulrich Giese, Deutsches Institut für Kautschuktechnologie, Hannover, Germany and Yolanda Navarro-Torrejon, Deutsches Institut für Kautschuktechnologie e. V., Hannover, Germany

9:45 AM

Break

10:00 AM

Morphology and Continuity Development In Reactive Thermoplastic-Elastomer Blends

Andy Tsou, Corporate Strategic Research, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, Annandale, NJ, John Cheng, ExxonMobil Chemical Co., Global Specialty Polymers Technology, Baytown, TX, Prashant Bhadane, Crepec, École Polytechnique de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, Maria Ellul, Advanced Elastomer Systems, L.P., an Affiliate of ExxonMobil Chemical Co., Akron, OH and Basil Favis, Crepec, CREPEC, Montreal, QC, Canada

10:30 AM

Prediction of Polymer Tube Lifetime In Potable Water: Modeling Antioxidant Depletion

Susan Mantell, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

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