• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.106-109
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• 2008

Polyurethane has been one of the most important materials for automobile elastic parts such as bumper, head rest, instrument panel and so on since it covers very wide range of mechanical characteristics with low production costs. The process variables such as formulation of ingredients and mold temperature, mixing speed, etc. can affect the quality of produced polyurethane foams so that process conditions should be determined appropriately. In this study, foaming behaviors of semi-rigid polyurethane were investigated by conducting cup foam tests with 2 major process variables such as environmental temperature and blowing agent content.

• Composites Research
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.130-134
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• 2014

The purpose of this paper is to build DB in order to Propose new constitutive equations by redefining constitutive equations for Polyurethane presented by Jeong et al. [12] based on Quasi-static test and Impact test DB of Expanded polypropylene using cylindrical specimens with 4 different densities presentsd by Kim et al. [7] for EPP foam and combining the impulse-momentum theory.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.256-261
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• 2009

Polyurethane has been one of the most important materials for automobile elastic parts such as bumper, head rest, instrument panel and so on since it covers very wide range of mechanical characteristics with low production costs. The processing variables such as formulation of ingredients and mold temperature, mixing speed, etc. can affect the quality of produced polyurethane foams so that process conditions should be determined appropriately. In this study, foaming behaviors of semi-rigid polyurethane were investigated by conducting cup foam tests with two major processing variables such as environmental temperature and blowing agent content. In addition, it was verified that processing conditions of real practice can be determined effectively by considering foaming characteristics obtained by the cup foam tests.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.343-351
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• 2011

We prepared polyurethane foam/cloisite30B/phosphates composites and characterized their rise time, density, cell morphology, and thermal properties. The composites were synthesized with polyadipatediol-cloisite30B composite (f=2.0), polyether-polyol (f=4.6), polymeric 4,4-diphenyl methane diisocyanate (f=2.5), and D-580 (phenyl polyoxyalkenyl phosphate). As a blowing agent, cyclopentane and distilled water were used at various concentrations of D-580 from 0 to 2.81 wt%. The rise times of PUF/Closite30B/Phosphate composites blown with distilled water were faster than those blown with cyclopentane by 30%. The composites blown with cyclopentane had spherical-shape cells and the cell diameter was decreased with increasing D-580 wt%. While $T_g$ of the composites blown with cyclopentane linearly decreased with increasing the D-580 content, the $T_g$ of the composites blown with distilled water increased with the D-580 content. All PUF/Closite30B/Phosphate composites began to decompose from $250^{\circ}C$. The composites blown with cyclopentane showed the second thermal decomposition at temperatures higher than $500^{\circ}C$. The thermal stability of all composites increased with the D-580 content. The effect of D-580 on the thermal stability of the composites was measured higher at the composites blown with distilled water.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.2846-2851
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• 2012

Effects of ground tire rubber(GTR) and unexpanded $Expancel^{(R)}$ powders on the thermal conducting characteristics of rigid polyurethane foams(PUFs) were studied. Sub-micron sized GTR powders and $Expancel^{(R)}$ powders were used as the foam nucleating agents to improve the thermal insulating properties of the rigid PUFs. As the results, while the thermal conductivities of the GTR filled-PUF samples were increased linearly with GTR contents, those of $Expancel^{(R)}$ filled-PUF samples were decreased a little bit. It was considered from the results that GTR powders might predominantly play a role as the extending fillers. On the other hand, $Expancel^{(R)}$ powders could act as the foam nucleating agents based on the polar surface, showing smaller cell sized PUF with improved insulating characteristics.

• Proceedings of the Korean Fiber Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.289-292
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• 2002

전분을 이용한 환경친화성 고분자 플라스틱 재료에는 전분충진형, blend형 등이 있으나, 대체로 전분은 보조재료로 사용된다. 이에 반해 extruder를 이용한 전분발포체나 TPS (Thermoplastic starch) 등은 전분을 주재료로 사용하여 플라스틱 재료를 만드는 것이지만, TPS 필름의 Tg가 실온보다 높아 glassy 상태의 brittle한 성질로 인해 물성이 낮으며, 수분 친화적인 성질로 인해 플라스틱 재료로서의 사용이 제한되는 단점이 있다[1,2]. (중략)

• 한국가스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.69-76
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• 2001

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.260-266
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• 2006

For the synthesis of polyurethane memory foam stabilizer with fine cells, hydrosilylation reaction with various polyalkyleneoxides and hydrogen functional group of polymethylhydrogensiloxane (D = 75, D' = 15) was conducted. Polyalkyleneoxides (PAO) used in this research were ethylene oxides or ethylene-co-propylene oxides with terminal groups of hydroxides or methyl groups. To analyze the molecular structures and molecular weights as well as the reaction yields (98%), NMR and GPC analysis were executed. Synthesized siloxane surfactants modified with polyalkylene (EO = 12 units) were applied to producing flexible polyurethane fine memory foams from 0.6 pphp to 2.0 pphp. By controlling the amount of the surfactant, physical characteristics, the polyurethane memory foam with cell size (minimum $0.868{\mu}m$), air flows (-78 KPa), and recovery times (8 sec) were achieved.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.115-122
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• 2012

Polyurethane foams were synthesized with different contents and kinds of catalysts to know change of properties under various NCO index. UTM(universal testing machine), DSC(differential scanning calorimetry), SEM(scanning electron microscope) and FT-IR(Fourier transform spectroscopy) were used for studying the PUF's physical properties change. Compressive strength of PUF increased with increasing contents of catalyst. Glass transition temperature(Tg) and compressive strength of PUF using PC-8 and 33LV catalyst, increased with increasing NCO index at the aging. According to the results of Infrared spectral analysis, reduction of NCO peak was found in gelling catalyst, because unreacted NCO reacted with polyurethane. Although Tg and compressive strength of PUF using TMR-2, unchanged with increasing NCO index at the aging, because trimerization of isocyanate.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.197-203
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• 1997

The effect of additives on the mechanical properties of polyurethane foam were investigated. The resin used in this study was prepared by adding catalyst, surfactant and cross-linker to both KONIX FA-703 polyether polyol(80%) and KONIX FA-733 polyether polyol(20%). The polyurethane was foamed by adding equivalent amount of isocyanate(TDI-80, prepolymer M-200, pure MDI) to the resin and was used in property measurements after 72 hours hardening. The physical properties of polyurethane foam were investigated in terms of density, tensile strength, tear strength, elongation, sound absorption coefficient and gel profile measurements. The effects of surfactant on the cell size was investigated by scanning electron microscopy(SEM). The sound absorption coefficient was directly related to the cell size. The physical properties were improved with increasing amount of surfactant(L-5309) until 1.0 part per hundred polyol(1.0pphp).