PETN Coarsening - Predictions from Accelerated Aging Data

Coarsening, Aging and Persistence

Aging and its distribution in coarsening processes

We investigate the age distribution function P(t ,t) in prototypical coarsening processes. Here P(t ,t) is the probability density that in a time interval (0,t) a given site was last crossed by an interface in the coarsening process at time t . We determine P(t ,t) exactly in one dimension for the ~deterministic! two-velocity ballistic annihilation process and the ~stochastic! infinite-state Po...

Accelerated Heat Aging Study of Phenolic/Basalt Fiber Reinforced Composites

One of the greatest impediments to use polymer-matrix composites is their susceptibility to degradation when exposed to the elevated temperatures and the limited knowledge on the thermal and mechanical properties of these composites at such temperatures. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of accelerated heat aging on the tensile properties of the Woven Basalt/Phenolic (WBP) ...

Coarsening and accelerated equilibration in mass-conserving heterogeneous nucleation.

We propose a model of mass-conserving heterogeneous nucleation to describe the dynamics of ligand-receptor binding in closed cellular compartments. When the ligand dissociation rate is small, competition among receptors for free ligands gives rise to two very different long-time ligand-receptor cluster-size distributions. Cluster sizes first plateau to a long-lived, initial-condition-dependent,...

Dynamics of coarsening foams: accelerated and self-limiting drainage.

The evolution of a foam is determined by drainage flow of the continuous (liquid) phase and coarsening (aging) of the dispersed phase (gas bubbles). Free-drainage experiments with slow- and fast-coarsening gases show markedly different dynamics and elucidate the importance of the coupling of the two effects. Strong coarsening leads to drainage times that are shorter (accelerated drainage) and i...