Fiber orientation in film gated injection-molded rectangular plates was characterized using micro computed tomography. Polyamide 12 materials with 15, 30, and 50 wt% glass fibers were used in this study. For all three materials, the typical core-shell layer structure of fiber orientation was observe...

Weld lines in injection moulded short fibre reinforced thermoplastics can significantly reduce the mechanical strength of a product. However, knowledge about the mechanical properties in the weld line region is limited. A reason for this is the difficulty in measuring strains at small scales. In thi...

Two grades of LLDPE were analysed by a number of methods for fractionation and molecular structure determination (molecular weight, branching density). Methods used were: preparative fractionation according to comonomer content (TREF) and molecular weight (solvent - non solvent), CRYSTAF, SEC, SEC-F...