This Malaysian Standard covers the use of dynamic mechanical instrumentation for gathering and reporting the visco-elastic properties of thermoplastic and thermosetting resins and composite systems in the form of rectangular bars molded directly or cut from sheets, plates, or molded shapes.
The data generated, using three-point bending techniques, may be used to identify the thermomechanical properties of a plastics material or composition using a variety of dynamic mechanical instruments.
This Malaysian Standard is intended to provide means for determining the modulus as a function of temperature for a wide variety of plastics materials using nonresonant forced-vibration techniques, in accordance with Practice D 4065. Plots of the elastic (storage); loss (viscous); and complex moduli and tan delta as a function of frequency, time, or temperature are indicative of significant transitions in the thermomechanical performance of the polymeric material system.
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