This series of articles is designed to help molders understand how a few analytical tools can help diagnose a part failure. Michael Sepe is our analyst and author. He is the technical director at ...

Physically speaking, glass is a rather unusual material. Most solid materials are significantly ‘ordered’ with their constituent molecules or atoms in a regular arrangement, repeating patterns called ...

A collaborative group from Tohoku University and Johns Hopkins University have provided valuable insights into the glass transition. When a liquid is cooled rapidly, it gains viscosity and eventually ...

From the low-frequency end of this spectrum, we extracted the viscosity. What's remarkable is that this approach works all the way down to temperatures near the glass transition, where traditional ...

The article will outline the characterization of polybutadiene. Glass transition temperature is crucial when considering the material for various applications. The modulus and the damping properties ...

At the molecular level, glass looks like a liquid. But an artificial neural network has picked up on hidden structure in its molecules that may explain why glass is rigid like a solid. Most materials ...