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dc.contributor.authorSiripirom, Chavanin
dc.description.abstractThe characterization of mechanical properties in a combinatorial and high-throughput workflow has been a bottleneck that reduced the speed of the materials development process. High-throughput characterization of the mechanical properties was applied in this research in order to reduce the amount of sample handling and to accelerate the output. A puncture tester was designed and built to evaluate the toughness of materials using an innovative template design coupled with automation. The test is in the form of a circular free-film indentation. A single template contains 12 samples which are tested in a rapid serial approach. Next, the operational principles of a novel parallel dynamic mechanical-thermal analysis instrument were analyzed in detail for potential sources of errors. The test uses a model of a circular bilayer fixed-edge plate deformation. A total of 96 samples can be analyzed simultaneously which provides a tremendous increase in efficiency compared with a conventional dynamic test. The modulus values determined by the system had considerable variation. The errors were observed and improvements to the system were made. A finite element analysis was used to analyze the accuracy given by the closed-form solution with respect to testing geometries, such as thicknesses of the samples. A good control of the thickness of the sample was proven to be crucial to the accuracy and precision of the output. Then, the attempt to correlate the high-throughput experiments and conventional coating testing methods was made. Automated nanoindentation in dynamic mode was found to provide information on the near-surface modulus and could potentially correlate with the pendulum hardness test using the loss tangent component. Lastly, surface characterization of stratified siloxane-polyurethane coatings was carried out with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and nanoindentation. The siloxane component segregates to the surface during curing. The distribution of siloxane as a function of thickness into the sample showed differences depending on the formulation parameters. The coatings which had higher siloxane content near the surface were those coatings found to perform well in field tests.en_US
dc.publisherNorth Dakota State Universityen_US
dc.rightsNDSU Policy 190.6.2
dc.titleHigh-Throughput Methods for Characterizing the Mechanical Properties of Coatingsen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-17T16:06:10Z
dc.date.available2017-10-17T16:06:10Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10365/26649
dc.rights.urihttps://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf
ndsu.degreeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)en_US
ndsu.collegeScience and Mathematicsen_US
ndsu.departmentCoatings and Polymeric Materialsen_US
ndsu.programCoatings and Polymeric Materialsen_US
ndsu.advisorWebster, Dean C.


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