The effect of electron beam irradiation in presence Of TMPTA as an initiator on tensile properties of linear low density polyethylene/poyl(vinyl alcohol) blends

Author

Nordin, Razif ; Ismail, Hanafi ; Ahmad, Zulkifli

Author_Institution

Polymer Dept., Univ. Teknol. MARA Perlis, Arau, Malaysia

fYear

2011

fDate

5-6 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

706

Lastpage

709

Abstract

The effect of electron beam (EB) irradiation on the thermal and tensile properties of unmodified and modified linear low density polyethylene/poly(vinyl alcohol) (LLDPE/PVA) blends with trimethylolpropane triacrylate (TMPTA) were investigated irradiated at 50, 100 and 150 kGy. The LLDPE/PVA blends were prepared by melt mixing. LLDPE/PVA (php/php) blends ratio between 90/10 to 40/60 was studied. The effects of TMPTA on gel content, FTIR and tensile properties of LLDPE/PVA blends were investigated. The results indicated that, the presence of TMPTA increased the tensile properties compared to blends without TMPTA due to more crosslinking formation. The degree of crosslinking was quantified by gel content measurements and verify with FTIR analysis.

Keywords

chemical technology; electron beam applications; polymers; radiation effects; thermal analysis; FTIR analysis; TMPTA; electron beam irradiation; gel content; linear low density polyethylene/poyl(vinyl alcohol) blends; radiation absorbed dose 100 kGy; radiation absorbed dose 150 kGy; radiation absorbed dose 50 kGy; tensile properties; thermal properties; trimethylolpropane triacrylate; Chemicals; Electron beams; Indexes; Polyethylene; Radiation effects; Young´s modulus; blends; poly(vinyl alcohol); polyethylene;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Humanities, Science and Engineering (CHUSER), 2011 IEEE Colloquium on

Conference_Location

Penang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0021-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CHUSER.2011.6163826

Filename

6163826