Sunday, August 23, 1998
Boston, MA
8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Toughening can often improve the durability and impact resistance of plastics in load-bearing applications, thus increasing the range of applicability of many plastics and add value to them. However the development process is often based more on art than science, requiring many iterations before a material can meet the many, sometimes conflicting demands of a particular application. A better understanding of the toughening process could lead to significant improvements in product development efficiency.
This workshop will provide tutorials on fundamentals as well as case studies of applications. The aim of this workshop is to provide some of the fundamental basis required to understand the fracture and failure processes of plastics, and how these in turn lead to rational toughening strategies. Furthermore, the production of a toughened material often requires melt processing to achieve the desired dispersion of the tougheners and also particular morphologies. The workshop will have sessions that provide fundamentals to rheological and interfacial control of blend morphology. Finally, sessions on several types of material systems will be used to illustrate the application of these fundamentals.
Prof. Clive B. Bucknall
Cranfield University, UK
Prof. Albert F. Yee
University of Michigan
Prof. Han Meijer
Eindhoven University, Netherlands
Prof. Raymond A. Pearson
Lehigh University
Prof. Hung-jue Sue
Texas A&M University
Prof. Reinoud Gaymans
Twente University, Netherlands
$525 after July 15, 1998
Fee covers workshop lecture notes, beverage breaks and taxes. It does NOT include ACS Symposium registration fee, hotel accommodations, and meals.
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Special discount for students and post-docs: $100 prior to July, 15
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Clive Bucknall obtained his BA and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge, which later recognized his lifetime research achievements with the award of a Doctor of Science (ScD) degree. He worked for eight years in the research laboratories of BX Plastics before moving in 1967 to Cranfield, where he is now Professor of Polymer Science and Head of the Advanced Materials Department. Throughout his professional career, he has made a special study of toughening mechanisms in rubber-modified plastics, and published over 100 papers on toughening of plastics. His book "Toughened Plastics", published in 1977, is still widely quoted as a standard reference on the subject.
Albert Yee obtained his BS ('67) and PhD ('71) degrees in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1971 he joined the General Electric Company's R&D Center in Schenectady, NY where he did research on the mechanical behavior of plastics, including toughening mechanisms. In 1985 he joined the University of Michigan where he is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. In 1994 he became Chair of that Department. In 1997 he was appointed Director of the newly established Center for Advanced Polymer Engineering Research in the College of Engineering at Michigan. His research includes extensive studies on the toughening mechanisms of engineering plastics and thermosets and molecular design for intrinsic toughness.
Han Meijer is Professor in Polymer Technology at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Twente in 1980. He joined DSM research, and was active in the area of polymer processing modelling and explorative research. In 1985 he became part-time professor at the Departmant of Polymer Chemistry and Technology in the area of applied rheology. In 1989 he was promoted to his current position in the Division of Computational and Experimental Mechanics of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His present interests include micro-rheology, micro-mechanics, modelling of polymer processing and design.
Raymond Pearson is Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Lehigh University. He received the BS degree from the University of New Hampshire in 1980. He then spent seven years with the General Electric Co. with assignments in the R&D Center as well as GE Plastics in Bergen op Zoom, Holland. He received the PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1990. He then joined Lehigh University where his research interests include all aspects of polymer processing, and mechanical behavior of polymer blends and fracture of bimaterial interfaces. In 1995 he became the Director of the Microelectronics Packaging Materials Laboratory at Lehigh.
Hung-jue Sue is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University which he joined in 1995, after six years at the Freeport facility of the Dow Chemical Co. Dr. Sue obtained his BS in Chemical Engineering from Chung Yuan University in Taiwan, and MSE degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Metallurgical Engineering and PhD degree in Macromolecular Science and Engineering, all from the University of Michigan. His research interests include fracture and toughening of high performance composites and thermosets, rigid/rigid polymer blends, and processing techniques to enhance mechanical performance.
Reinould Gaymans received his PhD in polymer science from Brunel University in 1971, and subsequently joined the University of Twente. His field of research is engineering plastics, blends, and composites. In particular his research group is working on engineering polymers with a high degree of order, and toughening of polymer blends and filled polymers.