Materials Technology. Services

Mechanical Test

Determination of the mechanical properties at constant temperature (range of temperatures: from -70ºC up to 250ºC): tensile tests, three-point bending tests, compression and compression in flat deformation tests.

Specific test of Mechanism of the fracture: toughness determination (KIc and GIc), determination of J0.2 and JIc, construction of resistance curves J-R, determination essential work of fracture.

Determination of the impact strength: pendular impact (Charpy, Izod, Impact-traction), falling dart impact (-40 ºC up to 150 ºC)

Determination of the fracture toughness by instrumented impact

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Thermal and Reological Test

Analysis through Diferential Scaning Calorimetry (DSC): determinació of the thermal characteristics (glass transition temperature, melting enthalpy...), studies of thermal ageing, studies of of crosslinking processes. influence of the additives.

Detemination of Tg through Dynamic Mechanical Thermal Analysis (DMTA)

Determination of the heat deflection temperature (HDT)

Determination of Vicat softening temperature

Melt flow index gravimetric (MFI) and volumetric (MVR)

Determination of the intrinsic viscosity

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Mixing and additivation

Reactive extrusion, mixing of polymers, compatibilization of polymers, incorporation of fillers, fibres and additives, preparation of concentrates (masterbatch)

Extrusion

Sheet extrusion-calendering, film extrusion-blowing, cast film, extrusion parameters optimization, relationship between conditions of extrusion and properties, determination of the anisotropy in extruded products

Injection

Mould checking, production of short series and pre-series, simulation, optimization of moulds processing window, shrinkage analysis of injected parts, mucellTM microfoaming

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