Experimental Investigation of Mechanical Properties of PVC Polymer under Different Heating and Cooling Conditions

Sarkawt Rostam,Alan Kareem Ali,Firdaws Haidar Abdalmuhammad

doi:10.1155/2016/3791417

Abstract

Due to a widely increasing usage of polymers in various industrial applications, there should be a continuous need in doing research investigations for better understanding of their properties. These applications require the usage of the polymer in different working environments subjecting the material to various temperature ranges. In this paper, an experimental investigation of mechanical properties of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) polymer under heating and cooling conditions is presented. For this purpose standard samples are prepared and tested in laboratory using universal material testing apparatus. The samples are tested under different conditions including the room temperature environment, cooling in a refrigerator, and heating at different heating temperatures. It is observed that the strength of the tested samples decreases with the increasing of heating temperature and accordingly the material becomes softer. Meanwhile the cooling environments give a clear increasing to the strength of the material.

Highlights

Among the plastic materials, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is the one of the most used and produced [1]
For better understanding of the PVC properties and for the proper utilization of the working environment, a considerable number of works can be seen in this field
Deshmukh and Joshi [11] observe an improvement of mechanical properties of PVC as a function of graphene oxide loading

Summary

Introduction

Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is the one of the most used and produced [1]. For better understanding of the PVC properties and for the proper utilization of the working environment, a considerable number of works can be seen in this field The range of these attempts covers different aspects of investigations on PVC from experimental investigations [2,3,4,5,6,7] to modelling and simulation approaches [8]. Deshmukh and Joshi [11] observe an improvement of mechanical properties of PVC as a function of graphene oxide loading. Both tensile strength and Young’s modulus were increased as a result of this loading. The investigation aimed to improve the tensile modulus of PVC

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