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How to Choose Fireproof Rubber Products
From: Elasto Proxy Inc.Description: Subway, bus, and railcar designers prefer lightweight rubber materials, but some combustion reactions can produce dangerous toxins. Reducing a vehicle's weight can help cut fuel consumption, but ...
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How to Select Green Rubber Products
From: Elasto Proxy Inc.Description: Green manufacturing isn't just about saving the planet. It's about sustaining long-term profitability. For product designers and technical buyers, deciding whether to use green rubber products means ...
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Corrosion Resistance of Metals in Various Chemical Media
From: TITAN Metal FabricatorsDescription: Details corrosion resistance of reactive metals including Tantalum, Niobium, Zirconium, Titanium, Alloy B,Alloy C, Monel, Inconel, and 316SS. Chemicals include a wide range of acids, salts, and ...
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How to Select Marine Rubber and Plastic
From: Elasto Proxy Inc.Description: Rubber and plastic materials for marine applications must be able to withstand water, saltwater, wind, sunlight, temperature extremes, and other environmental conditions. Whether on the high seas or ...
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Raw Water Intake Monitoring
Description: The Situation: Hydrocarbons in water intake used for municipal drinking water and desalination systems are commonly limited to 1 part per million. Occasionally, drinking water from rivers or lakes ...
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Foam Rubber vs. Sponge Rubber: What's the Difference?
From: Elasto Proxy Inc.Description: Did you know that there's a difference between foam rubber and sponge rubber? For technical buyers, choosing the right material is quite important. Let's take a look at how these polymers are made, ...
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Silicone EPDM Blends: Rubber Compounds for Expansion and Resistance
From: Elasto Proxy Inc.Description: Many polymers do not lend themselves to blends. Human history includes a Bronze Age and an Iron Age, but have you read any books that call our current era the Age of Long-Chain Polymer Blends? Through ...
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Air National Guard
Description: The Air National Guard (ANG) contacted General Plastics as it explored rigid polyurethane foam solutions to munitions storage for its civil air defense facilities. In particular, it sought a ...
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A Plastic Gear Design Update
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: This article appeared in the May 11, 2006 issue of "Machine Design" magazine under the title, "No More 'Girlie Man' Gears: Advanced Polymers Let Designers Replace Metals in Large, Complex Gear Sets ...
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Halogen-Free Flame Retardant Thermoplastic Polyesters with Enhanced Processability
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: Many phosphorus containing additives and nitrogen synergists are available for use as ame retardant systems in engineering plastics, to develop halogen-free products for the electrical & electronics ...
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Halogen-Free Polyphenylene Sulfide for Consumer Electronics Applications
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: The recent push for environmentally friendly halogen-free products has resulted in signi cant changes in polymer materials used in the consumer electronics industry. A series of halogen-free ...
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High Temperature Aesthetic Grade Liquid Crystal Polymers for Consumer Applications: Not Just For Connectors Anymore
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: For many years high owing engineered resins, such as Liquid Crystal Polymer (LCP), have been used for very detailed and intricate parts in the electronics and connector industries where function and ...
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Integrated Anisotropic Simulation for Components Made From Glass Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastics
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: Designing components made from glass ber reinforced thermoplastics is not trivial since the bers are inclusions in the matrix material. Fibers are speci cally oriented in the mold lling phase ...
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Laser Direct Structuring LCP for Mobile Antenna Applications
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: The rapid growth and global demand for wireless communication and increasing need for more functionality in smart phones have created a need for advanced engineering resin to meet new antenna ...
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Low Gloss, Low Emission UV Stabilized Polyacetal Copolymer (POM)
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: Automotive OEMs have increasingly become more interested in monitoring cabin air quality inside the vehicle. This leads to the need for further understanding and testing of emissions from the various ...
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New PCT Compound for LED Reflector Resin
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: Light-emitting diodes (LED), as a new light source, are being used more and more as display backlight and general lighting. Due to the increase of brightness and electrical current of LED packaging ...
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Plasticized Polyoxymethylene Performance in Fuels
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: Polyoxymethylene (POM) or polyacetal is an engineering thermoplastic resin that has been used for the past 50 years, primarily in injection molded articles. POM's benefi t is derived from its ...
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Ultrahigh Flow Liquid Crystal Polymer
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: A new ow improvement technology (FIT) including reactive extrusion and Celanese proprietary compounding technology enables a high ow liquid crystal polymer (LCP) with lower warpage. LCP polymer ...
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Vandar® High-Impact Strength Polyester for Sporting Goods
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: Vandar® 2100 is an impact modi ed engineering thermoplastic resin developed to deliver consistent performance over a wide range of temperature and humidity conditions, primarily in injection ...
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99990A### Press Cycle Guide
From: Arlon LLCDescription: Press cycle graph and guide. ...
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Arc Tracking and Silicone Self-Fusing Tape
From: Arlon LLCDescription: Many electrical insulation applications are designed with dielectric breakdown strength (DBS), or the voltage potential required to break through an electrically insulating material, as a major ...
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Arlon Silicone Rubber Products and PFOS & PFOA content
From: Arlon LLCDescription: Arlon Silicone Technologies Division does not intentionally use perfluorooctanesulfonates (PFOS) or perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) as raw materials in the manufacture of its silicone rubber compounds, ...
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Compliance of Arlon Silicone Products to the European Directive 2011/65/EC on RoHS and the Chinese Administration Measure on the Control of Pollution Caused by Electrical and Electronic Equipment
From: Arlon LLCDescription: Arlon Silicone Technologies Division offers a wide selection of silicone products that comply with the European Directive 2011/65/EC on the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (European RoHS) and the ...
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Effect of Elastic Elongation on Dielectric Strength
From: Arlon LLCDescription: Elastomeric insulating tapes are routinely used in electrical systems manufacturing. The dielectric strength of the material being used is of utmost importance in these applications and it is often ...
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Fabrication Method Reference Guide
From: Arlon LLCDescription: Thermabond®-NP Compliant Adhesives are used to bond two interfaces that require a thermal path between them. Thermabond accomplishes this by using mineral or metallic fillers incorporated into a ...
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Fabrication Method Reference Guide: Standard Thermabond Compliant Thermal Interface Adhesives
From: Arlon LLCDescription: Thermabond® Adhesives are used to bond two interfaces that require a thermal path between them. Thermabond® accomplishes this by using mineral or metallic fillers incorporated into a ...
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Flex Fatigue of Simple Composites
From: Arlon LLCDescription: Flex fatigue resistance of multi-layer composites of silicone rubber and plain weave polyester fabrics is determined with a Bally-type flexometer according to ASTM D 6182. Fabric denier and the ...
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Formaldehyde Generation from Silicone Rubber
From: Arlon LLCDescription: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) defines formaldehyde as a hazardous chemical. It is characterized as a flammable, colorless gas with a pungent odor. Formaldehyde is ...
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Low Temperature Flexibility of Silicone Fusible Tapes
From: Arlon LLCDescription: Low temperature flexibility of silicone rubber fusible tapes is studied by measuring the stress-strain relationship at sub-ambient temperatures. Observations are correlated to thermal transitions ...
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NEW ADVANCES IN PRIMERLESS SILICONE INSULATION MATERIALS
From: Arlon LLCDescription: Silicone rubber laminate insulation materials have a long history of successful service in diesel-electric locomotive traction motors dating back to the 1950's. Silicone rubber is an excellent ...
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New Advances in Silicone-based Thermal Insulation
From: Arlon LLCDescription: Silicone foam is currently used as the thermal insulation material of choice for many heating applications. However, silicone foam has disadvantages that limit its use in many applications. These ...
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New Highly Thermally Stable Flexible Heater Compound
From: Arlon LLCDescription: Arlon's next generation 427CR silicone compound delivers the best thermal stability of any flexible heater material available on the market. The new 427CR compound retains critical physical properties ...
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Outgassing of Silicone Elastomers
From: Arlon LLCDescription: The performance advantages of silicone elastomers are widely known. Silicone provides unique characteristics that allow it to be used in a broad range of applications, including applications serving ...
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Outgassing of Silicone Heater Compound
From: Arlon LLCDescription: Basics of silicone outgassing. ...
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Regarding the Evolution of Formaldehyde from Polydimethylsiloxanes
From: Arlon LLCDescription: Study about the evolution of formaldehyde from Methyl Siloxanes. ...
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Research Progress in Calenderable Fluorosilicone with Excellent Fuel Resistance
From: Arlon LLCDescription: Fluorosilicone rubber (FSR) is a high performance elastomer for applications requiring low temperature flexibility, high temperature stability, and fuel resistance. This paper describes the ...
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Seaming Technique for Chemically Resistant, Reusable, Vacuum Bag Material
From: Arlon LLCDescription: Design and construction of vacuum bag material is a fundamental aspect of composite fabrication with aggressive resins, such as epoxy and vinyl ester, in vacuum and channel assisted resin transfer ...
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SHIPPING, STORAGE, AND SHELF LIFE OF PRIMERLESS THERMABOND
From: Arlon LLCDescription: This guide gives recommendations for storage and shipping conditions of Arlon Silicone Technologies Division products 99990A008 and 99990A015. ...
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Silicone Based Electrical Insulation Material for High Speed/Voltage Rotating Machines
From: Arlon LLCDescription: This paper introduces the key requirements for resin rich electrical insulation materials for rotating machinery. The key requirements, or stresses that insulation are subject to, are summarized as ...
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Silicone Rubber Flame Resistance
From: Arlon LLCDescription: The requirements for a material to combust are heat, fuel, and oxygen. Limiting the interaction of a material with at least one of these requirements will impede the combustion process and impart a ...
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The Permeability Characteristics of Silicone Rubber
From: Arlon LLCDescription: Silicone rubber is universally regarded as the best-in-class elastomer for extreme environments. In addition, silicone rubber is one of the most permeable elastomers. This property is a key advantage ...
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The Use of Silicone Adhesives in Space Applications
From: Arlon LLCDescription: The conditions of space impose a unique set of constraints on the technologies that take us there. Indeed, the rigors of space exploration have often been the driving force behind many new ...
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Thermabond Application Notes -D001
From: Arlon LLCDescription: Typically, the most difficult part of working with Thermabond® is liner removal after the material has been tacked to the heat sink. The key to this process is to avoid trapping air at this ...
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Thermabond Application Notes -D002
From: Arlon LLCDescription: A wide variety of thermal interface adhesives are available for the electronics industry. In the application and cure cycle of these adhesives, pressure plays an important role in determining the ...
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Thermabond® Application Notes -D003
From: Arlon LLCDescription: Platen Press Curing and Vacuum Bag Curing of Thermabond® Adhesives. ...
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Thermabond® Surface Adhesion
From: Arlon LLCDescription: Thermabond® adhesion to aluminum with various anodized coatings. ...
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Improved Impact Modified Polyoxymethylene Copolymers for Use in Small Off-Road Engine (SORE) Gas Tank Applications
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: Celanese has developed a new family of impact modi ed polyoxymethylene (POM) copolymers that demonstrate a combination of improved permeation resistance, cold temperature impact strength, and melt ...
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Where Will Vinyl Tapes Go Next?
Description: 3M™ Vinyl Tapes are used in countless applications and industries. With their aggressive adhesion, wear resistance and clean removal from most surfaces, 3M™ vinyl tapes offer benefits for ...
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Quantification of Plasticizers in Plastics
Description: This application note describes a test method developed at CPG for the identification and quantification of plasticizer in PVC by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS). For a sample mass of ...
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Flood Reinstatement
From: Triton SystemsDescription: Flood reinstatement made faster with cavity drain membranes, ...
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Flood Resilience Measures
From: Triton SystemsDescription: Flood resilience measures bring peace of mind to riverside living. ...
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Next, Oxford Street
From: Triton SystemsDescription: Next's Oxford Street storage space tanked using Triton TT55. ...
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Artificial Annulus Fibrosus Model
Description: An estimated twelve million people in the US suffer from degenerative disc disease. Recent therapies involve replacement of the nucleus pulposus (NP) with an artificial material using the existing ...
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Artificial Lens Hazing Root-Cause Analysis
Description: IOL are often implanted as a replacement for cataract-damaged lenses, or in some cases to change the optical power of the lens. These lenses were originally made from poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) ...
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Benzoyl Peroxide Determination
Description: Benzoyl peroxide (BPO) is added to bone cement as a radical initiator for the methyl methacrylate monomer. BPO is highly reactive and degrades readily, with a temperature dependent half-life of one ...
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Cambridge Polymer Group Silly Putty
Description: Silly Putty™ is a material that vividly demonstrates the richness and complexity of behavior that apparently simple materials can produce. When first handled, the initial impression given by ...
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Cleanliness Assessment of Medical Devices
Description: In 2000, a major recall occurred in the orthopaedic industry where evidence suggested thousands of metallic acetabular shells were failing to properly osseointegrate and were therefore loose. ...
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Design of Experiments/Formulation Development
Description: Traditional strategies for material development can be involved, requiring gradual iteration towards a target set of properties. Design of Experiments (DoE) allows a structured, statistically robust ...
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Determining Accelerated Environmental Fatigue Behavior
Description: Plastics are ubiquitous in engineering and in many cases have replaced metals. However, plastics can suffer substantially from environmentally induced cracking where the environment in combination ...
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Direct Measurement of Crosslink Density
Description: The Swell Ratio Tester (SRT™) is an in-house design that allows safe and simple determination of the swelling properties of polymeric materials. The data generated provides insight into ...
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Droplet Breakup in Sprays and Coatings
Description: The Capillary Breakup Extensional Rheometer (CaBER®) was initially developed at Cambridge Polymer Group under a Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) grant. The instrument has since been ...
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Failure Analysis in Catheters
Description: A client presented catheter hubs that appeared to be cracking during their manufacturing process. The hubs were compound structures with polycarbonate embedding electronics and the catheter itself. A ...
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Highly Crosslinked Polyethylene for Orthopaedics
Description: Highly crosslinked ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) has been used in hip and knee replacements since 1998. Although very successful, these materials suffer from significant ...
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How Clean Is Clean Enough?
Description: Cleaning assessment and validation of medical devices has received increased scrutiny from the medical device industry and regulatory agencies in the past 10 years. Cambridge Polymer Group provides ...
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How is Your Patient Lying?
Description: Orthopaedic surgeries are some of the most successful interventions currently performed. Hip replacements in particular are now expected to exceed twenty years of use when properly implanted. However, ...
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How to Clean a Boat
Description: A serious issue for any water-borne craft is that of marine fouling. Seaweed and sea life are remarkably adept at fixing to boat hulls. This condition causes two problems, firstly a substantial loss ...
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Injectable Hydrogels for Tissue Bulking
Description: CPG scientists have developed a formulation of injectable hydrogel that can be used to reinforce human tissue, acting as a bulking agent. CPG hydrogels use a wellrecognized biocompatible synthetic ...
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Lubricity of Materials and Solutions
Description: Coefficient of Friction (CoF) is used to quantify how readily two surfaces slide in the presence of a lubricant or oil. Conventional CoF tests use custom built hardware to measure the friction but no ...
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Magnetorheology
Description: Engineers are increasingly turning to so-called smart fluids to solve complex mechanical problems. One specific type of smart fluid is the magnetorheological fluid (MR fluid)which greatly increases ...
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Next Generation Orthopaedic Implants
Description: Modern polymeric bearing surfaces in orthopaedics are remarkably successful but these materials do not perform well in new tissue sparing procedures where ultra-thin constructs are required. CPG has ...
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OIT as a Measure of Active Antioxidants
Description: The third generation ultra-high molecular weight poly(ethylene) (UHMWPE) materials currently being used in orthopaedics, rely on antioxidants to stabilize their properties over time. Until now, no ...
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Preventing Complications During Orthopaedic Surgeries
Description: A major complication in total hip replacements is the risk of fracture of the femur as the implant stem is inserted. This fracture can occur intraoperatively in up to 5% of patients and causes serious ...
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Replacing Cartilage With Hydrogels
Description: Replacing cartilage with a functionally equivalent soft solid is considered a superior treatment for arthritic joints. Cambridge Polymer Group has patented a very low friction elastic hydrogel ...
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Routine Determination of Curing and Gelation Time
Description: Determining "dough time" for bone cement is critical for the surgeon operatively, and providing that data on a routine quality control basis is currently complex and expensive. Traditionally, shear ...
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FIBERGLASS SETS THE STAGE FOR SEA LIONS
From: Strongwell CorporationDescription: Harrington Industrial Plastics recently outfitted a sea lion attraction at the Aqua Theater in the Wildlife Conservation Society's Queens Zoo with EXTREN® fiberglass structural shapes and ...
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THE BLUE HARBOR RESORT GOES WITH THE FLOW BY USING DURAGRID®
From: Strongwell CorporationDescription: The Blue Harbor Resort in Sheboygan, WI was outfitted with Strongwell's pultruded fiberglass grating and stair treads. ...
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UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE'S FIRST COMPOSITE SUSPENSION BRIDGE
From: Strongwell CorporationDescription: A composites FRP (Fiber Reinforced Polymer) pedestrian suspension bridge was recently completed to join the new state-of-the-art, five-story, 110,000 square-foot, John D. Tickle Engineering Building ...
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Applications report presented at the Produced Water Society Seminar 2013
Description: "Performance Testing of Micro Media and Conventional Filters operating on Heavy Oil Produced Water in the San Joaquin Valley (California)", an application note, was presented by Michael Dejak and ...
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Almshouses Ground Gas Barrier
From: Triton SystemsDescription: Triton's ground gas barrier system protects Almshouses from landfill gas. ...
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Tri-Seal Data Centre
From: Triton SystemsDescription: Data Centre protected from damp with Triton's Tri-Seal. ...
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Flood Resilienceand Waterproofing
From: Triton SystemsDescription: Flood resilience and waterproofing systems supplied by Triton were used on this waterside property for flood resilience. ...
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Home cinema in basement
From: Triton SystemsDescription: A twin waterproofing system specified for the habitable basement of a high spec new build dwelling. ...
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Waterproofing Insulated Concrete Formwork
From: Triton SystemsDescription: TT Vapour Membrane spray applied to ICF Formwork for a waterproof system. ...
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Wembley Basements
From: Triton SystemsDescription: A watertight concrete car park for a luxury new development near Wembley Stadium. ...
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New water-based adhesive offers both strength and speed
Description: To meet the needs of customers who want the speed and strength of solvent-based adhesives without their unfavorable safety and environmental profile, 3M has developed a new water-based product called ...
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TT Super Admix Waterproofs Basement.
From: Triton SystemsDescription: TT Super Admix used to waterproof 450 cubic meters of concrete for luxury apartments basemet. ...
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Wentworth Terrace Waterproofing
From: Triton SystemsDescription: TT Vapour Membrane applied to Wentworth terrace ensures a dry basement below. ...
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Compliance of Hydrogel Mock Arteries
Description: The elastic response of rubber-like materials is often based on the Mooney-Rivlin model, which describes the material's stress-strain relationship as a function of two empirically determined constants ...
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Experimental Techniques in Evaluating Crosslinked Polyethylene
Description: Analytical techniques for assessing the effects of radiation on UHMWPE. ...
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FTIR Analysis of Crosslinked Polyethylene
Description: FTIR Quantification of Absorbed Radiation Dose in Polyethylene ...
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Are Biofuels Bad for Your Budget?
From: Elasto Proxy Inc.Description: As a manufacturer of high-performance materials for the petrochemical industry explained, most biofuels are a mixture of fatty acids. Created by the reaction of natural oils with triglycerides and ...
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Selecting the right Tape and Adhesive products for the job
Description: United States > All 3M Products > Market Segments > Manufacturing and Industry > Industrial Adhesives & Tapes > Support > Technical & News Articles To help you make sure you find the optimum 3M tape ...
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FUSED QUARTZ AVERAGE TRANSMITTANCE CURVES
Description: FUSED QUARTZ AVERAGE TRANSMITTANCE CURVES ...
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FUSED QUARTZ PROPER USAGE GUIDELINES
Description: FUSED QUARTZ PROPER USAGE GUIDELINES ...
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PRESSURE CALCULATIONS AND FORMULAS
Description: Because fused quartz is used in applications involving internal pressures, it is helpful to know the maximum pressure that can be applied to a selected fused quartz tube. The formula below can ...
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PROPERTIES OF FUSED QUARTZ
Description: PROPERTIES OF FUSED QUARTZ ...
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How to Interpret a Datasheet
From: Epoxy TechnologyDescription: When selecting an EPO-TEK product for any application, the datasheet provides excellent information, and is a useful first reference guide. It is therefore important that the datasheet be correctly ...
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Cure Matters - Determining the Proper Cure Schedule
From: Epoxy TechnologyDescription: After selecting the appropriate adhesive, determining the proper cure schedule is a very important aspect to achieving optimal adhesive performance for your specific application. ...
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Coconut Husks and Fiber Reinforced Polymers
From: Elasto Proxy Inc.Description: Fiber reinforced polymers (FRPs) are a relatively new category of composite materials that combine stiffness and strength with weight reduction and corrosion resistance. Known also as polymer matrix ...
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Advantages of Non-Electrolytic formed Aluminum Oxide Coating
From: Sanchem, Inc.Description: Advantages of Non-Electrolytic formed Aluminum Oxide Coating. ...