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Title: Predicting Polymer Degradation and Mechanical Property Changes for Combined Radiation-Thermal Aging Environments

Abstract

Here, a new approach is presented for conducting and extrapolating combined environment (radiation plus thermal) accelerated aging experiments. The method involves a novel way of applying the time-temperature-dose rate (t-T-R) approach derived many years ago, which assumes that by simultaneously accelerating the thermal-initiation rate (from Arrhenius T-only analysis) and the radiation dose rate R by the same factor x, the overall degradation rate will increase by the factor x. The dose rate assumption implies that equal dose yields equal damage, which is equivalent to assuming the absence of dose-rate effects (DRE). A plot of inverse absolute temperature versus the log of the dose rate is used to indicate experimental conditions consistent with the model assumptions, which can be derived along lines encompassing so-called matched accelerated conditions (MAC lines). Aging trends taken along MAC lines for several elastomers confirms the underlying model assumption and therefore indicates, contrary to many past published results, that DRE are typically not present. In addition, the MAC approach easily accommodates the observation that substantial degradation chemistry changes occur as aging conditions transition R-T space from radiation domination (high R, low T) to temperature domination (low R, high T). The MAC-line approach also suggests an avenue formore »« less

Authors:

Gillen, Kenneth T. ^[1]; Celina, Mathew ^[1]

Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Publication Date:: Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2018

Research Org.:: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

OSTI Identifier:: 1465385

Report Number(s):: SAND-2018-8787J
Journal ID: ISSN 0035-9475; 666928

Grant/Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000

Resource Type:: Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Rubber Chemistry and Technology

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 91; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 0035-9475

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS), Rubber Division

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

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                    Gillen, Kenneth T., and Celina, Mathew. Predicting Polymer Degradation and Mechanical Property Changes for Combined Radiation-Thermal Aging Environments.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
        Web.  doi:10.5254/rct.18.81679.

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                    Gillen, Kenneth T., & Celina, Mathew. Predicting Polymer Degradation and Mechanical Property Changes for Combined Radiation-Thermal Aging Environments.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.5254/rct.18.81679

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                    Gillen, Kenneth T., and Celina, Mathew. 2018.  
        "Predicting Polymer Degradation and Mechanical Property Changes for Combined Radiation-Thermal Aging Environments".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.5254/rct.18.81679.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1465385.

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@article{osti_1465385,

  title        = {Predicting Polymer Degradation and Mechanical Property Changes for Combined Radiation-Thermal Aging Environments},

  author       = {Gillen, Kenneth T. and Celina, Mathew},

  abstractNote = {Here, a new approach is presented for conducting and extrapolating combined environment (radiation plus thermal) accelerated aging experiments. The method involves a novel way of applying the time-temperature-dose rate (t-T-R) approach derived many years ago, which assumes that by simultaneously accelerating the thermal-initiation rate (from Arrhenius T-only analysis) and the radiation dose rate R by the same factor x, the overall degradation rate will increase by the factor x. The dose rate assumption implies that equal dose yields equal damage, which is equivalent to assuming the absence of dose-rate effects (DRE). A plot of inverse absolute temperature versus the log of the dose rate is used to indicate experimental conditions consistent with the model assumptions, which can be derived along lines encompassing so-called matched accelerated conditions (MAC lines). Aging trends taken along MAC lines for several elastomers confirms the underlying model assumption and therefore indicates, contrary to many past published results, that DRE are typically not present. In addition, the MAC approach easily accommodates the observation that substantial degradation chemistry changes occur as aging conditions transition R-T space from radiation domination (high R, low T) to temperature domination (low R, high T). The MAC-line approach also suggests an avenue for gaining more confidence in extrapolations of accelerated MAC-line data to ambient aging conditions by using ultrasensitive oxygen consumption (UOC) measurements taken along the MAC line both under the accelerated conditions and at ambient. From UOC data generated under combined R-T conditions, this approach is tested and quantitatively confirmed for one of the materials. In analogy to the wear-out approach developed previously for thermo-oxidative aging, the MAC-line concept can also be used to predict the remaining lifetimes of samples extracted periodically from ambient environments.},

  doi          = {10.5254/rct.18.81679},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1465385},
  journal      = {Rubber Chemistry and Technology},

  issn         = {0035-9475},

  number       = 1,

  volume       = 91,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2018},

  month        = {Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2018}

}

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FIG. 1.: Arrhenius plot of induction times and oxygen consumption shift factors for an EPDM o-ring material.

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Sirunyan, Albert M.; Tumasyan, Armen; Adam, Wolfgang
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Measurements with silicon photomultipliers of dose-rate effects in the radiation damage of plastic scintillator tiles in the CMS hadron endcap calorimeter
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000429566

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