Number: 2006-041-1-400
Title: Glossary of thermal and
thermomechanical properties of polymers
Task Group
Chairman: Michael
Hess
Members: Jiasong
He, Kazuyuki Horie,
Graeme Moad, Robert
F. T. Stepto, Michel
Vert, and Jiri
Vohlidal
Objective:
To identify the most important terms concerning thermal effects
properties of relevance for polymers and to give recommendations
of unequivocal definitions of these terms.
Description:
In literature and practical use it is obvious that there is a significant
lack of a collection and unequivocal definitions of such terms in
the field of polymer science. Some terms are even used in entirely
different contexts or with different meanings to those intended.
This project shall give definitions of terms related to thermal
and thermomechanical properties of polymeric bulk materials.
The terms which have been selected for
the preliminary list (see below) are those met in the conventional
thermal (calorimetric) and thermomechanical (static or dynamic)
characterization of polymeric materials. The project will be based
to some extent on earlier reports related to nomenclature and terminology
of thermal analysis published by the International Confederation
for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (ICTAC: www.ictac.org).