Radiation-oxidation of polymers
Abstract
Radiation effects on polymers in the presence of air are characterized by complicated phenomena such as dose-rate effects and post-irradiation degradation. Most applications of polymeric materials in radiation environments involve air atmospheres. Taking account of oxidation effects and time-dependent phenomena is a necessity for understanding materials changes which occur during aging, and for dealing with issues of materials lifetime prediction, aging monitoring, materials selection, and material stabilization. Time-dependent radiation-degradation effects can be understood mechanistically in terms of: (1) features of the free radical chain-reaction chemistry underlying the oxidation, and (2) oxygen diffusion effects. A profiling technique has been developed to study heterogeneous degradation resulting from oxygen diffusion, and kinetic schemes have been developed to allow long-term aging predictions from short-term high-dose-rate experiments. These methodologies have been successfully applied for predicting degradation rates of a number of different materials under ambient nuclear environments. Low molecular weight additives which act either as free-radical scavengers or else as energy-scavengers are effective as stabilizers in radiation-oxidation environments. Non-radical oxidation mechanisms, involving species such as ozone, can also be important in the radiation-oxidation of polymers. 14 refs., 13 figs.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 6050016
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-89-1756C; CONF-8907108-1
ON: DE89014135
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DP00789
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: IAEA advisory group meeting on radiation degradation of polymers, Takasaki, Japan, 17-20 Jul 1989; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; POLYMERS; RADIATION EFFECTS; AGING; AIR; CHEMICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; DIFFUSION; ELONGATION; IRRADIATION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; OXIDATION; OZONE; PHYSICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; PROPYLENE; PVC; TIME DEPENDENCE; ALKENES; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHEMISTRY; CHLORINATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS; FLUIDS; GASES; HALOGENATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS; HYDROCARBONS; ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYVINYLS; RADIATION CHEMISTRY; 360605* - Materials- Radiation Effects; 360604 - Materials- Corrosion, Erosion, & Degradation
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Clough, R.L., and Gillen, K.T.. Radiation-oxidation of polymers. United States: N. p., 1989.
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Clough, R.L., & Gillen, K.T.. Radiation-oxidation of polymers. United States.
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"Radiation-oxidation of polymers". United States.
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title = {Radiation-oxidation of polymers},
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abstractNote = {Radiation effects on polymers in the presence of air are characterized by complicated phenomena such as dose-rate effects and post-irradiation degradation. Most applications of polymeric materials in radiation environments involve air atmospheres. Taking account of oxidation effects and time-dependent phenomena is a necessity for understanding materials changes which occur during aging, and for dealing with issues of materials lifetime prediction, aging monitoring, materials selection, and material stabilization. Time-dependent radiation-degradation effects can be understood mechanistically in terms of: (1) features of the free radical chain-reaction chemistry underlying the oxidation, and (2) oxygen diffusion effects. A profiling technique has been developed to study heterogeneous degradation resulting from oxygen diffusion, and kinetic schemes have been developed to allow long-term aging predictions from short-term high-dose-rate experiments. These methodologies have been successfully applied for predicting degradation rates of a number of different materials under ambient nuclear environments. Low molecular weight additives which act either as free-radical scavengers or else as energy-scavengers are effective as stabilizers in radiation-oxidation environments. Non-radical oxidation mechanisms, involving species such as ozone, can also be important in the radiation-oxidation of polymers. 14 refs., 13 figs.},
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