Orientador: Lucia Helena Innocentini Mei / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Quimica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T05:07:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jesus_RodolfoCardosode_M.pdf: 2937094 bytes, checksum: 406428b06b411d967d625ec5cff8fa13 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: O problema do acúmulo de lixo urbano tem aumentado nas últimas décadas e o grande consumo de plásticos é um dos responsáveis por esta situação. Estes materiais possuem a capacidade de permanecer no ambiente por muitos anos o que dificulta ainda mais a sua destinação correta. Este problema foi a principal motivação do trabalho aqui apresentado. O PHB é um material termoplástico biodegradável produzido por bactérias que se alimentam de sacarose, tais microorganismo convertem a sacarose em PHB. O Brasil é hoje um dos maiores produtores de PHB, entretanto este material possui baixas propriedades mecânicas quando comparados' a plásticos mais usados industrialmente. Algumas propriedades mecânicas foram melhoradas com a adição de triacetina como agente de plastificação, mas a resistência ao impacto diminui com este aditivo. Fibras são materiais utilizados em compósitos de matriz plástica para conferir resistência e flexibilidade a estes materiais. Fibras naturais têm sido empregadas com sucesso na tentativa de diminuir custos de compósitos e gerar reforço estrutural, além de diminuir o impacto ambiental dos plásticos. Neste trabalho foram obtidos compósitós de PHB, Triacetina e Fibras de Coco ou de Sisal, acetiladas e não-acetiladas, através de processos de extrusão e injeção. Os compósitos foram caracterizados por Análises Térmicas, Mecânicas, Espectroscópicas, Microscópicas e de Biodegradação. Os compósitos obtidos apresentaram vantagem em relação a matriz de PHB nos desempenhos mecânicos e de biodegradação devido a adição das fibras naturais e da triacetina. A reação de acetilação aparentemente melhorou a interação entre a superficie fibra-matriz e aparentemente foi mais bem sucedida na fibra de sisal / Abstract: The problem of urban waste accumulation has increased in recent decades and the large consumption of plastics is one of those responsible for this situation. These materiaIs have the ability to remain in the environment for many years making it difficult further to provide its correct destination. This problem was the main motivation of the work presented here. The PHB is a biodegradable thermoplastic material produced by bacteria feeding on sucrose, such microorganisms convert the sucrose in PHB. Brazil is today one of the largest producers of PHB, however this material has low mechanical properties compared to most plastics used industrially. Some mechanical propérties were improved with the addition of triacetin as agent for plasticization, but the resistance to the impact decreases with this additive. Fibers are used materiaIs in plastic matrix composite to give strength and flexibility to these materiaIs. Natural fibers have been used successfully in the attempt to reduce costs, and generate structural reinforcement composites, in addition to reducing the environmental impact of plastics. In this study were obtained from composites PHB, triacetate and Fibers of Coconut or Sisal, acetylated and non-acetylated through extrusion ~d injection, processes. The composites were characterized by Thermal Analysis, Mechanical, Spectroscopics, Microscopics and biodegradation. The composites obtained showed advantage over the array of PHB in the mechanical and performance degradation due to the addition of natural fibers and triacetate. The acetylation reaction apparently improved the interaction between the surface fiber-matrix and apparently was more successful in the sisal fiber / Mestrado / Ciencia e Tecnologia de Materiais / Mestre em Engenharia Química

Many phenomena determining the microstructure of a tool steel and consequently the properties of the material, are governed by multicomponent diffusion. The diffusion driven reactions that take place during, for example, tempering of a hot-work tool steel or when the microstructure develops during hot isostatic pressing of cold-work tool steel, are dependent on the types and amounts of alloying elements. In order for computational methods to be usable, these alloying effects need to be understood and incorporated in the models. In this work the influence of some typical tool steel alloying elements on the coarsening behavior of precipitates is investigated. Experimental coarsening studies are performed and the impact of the diffusion mobility descriptions and the thermodynamic descriptions are investigated by means of DICTRA coarsening calculations. The kinetic descriptions for diffusion in the body centered-cubic phase in the case of the chromium-iron-vanadium system and the chromium-iron-molybdenum system are improved by assessments of diffusion mobility parameters, and are shown to have a large impact on the calculated coarsening rate for vanadium-rich and molybdenum-rich precipitates. The effect of cobalt is examined by a coarsening experiment for vanandiumrich carbides and by a diffusion couple experiment for the investigation of the vanadium interdiffusion. The presence of cobalt is experimentally shown to have retarding effect on the coarsening rate of the carbides, but not on the vanadium diffusion. The coarsening rate of nitrogen-rich precipitates is compared to the coarsening rate of carbon-rich precipitates, and a lower coarsening rate for nitrides compared to carbides can be confirmed. Correlation between coarsening calculations and experiments is obtained suggesting that the thermodynamic description of the two systems is the underlaying reason for the different coarsening rates. Further, calculations utilizing the DICTRA software are combined with experimental investigations in order to study the possibility to apply computational methods for compound material development and explore application areas for high nitrogen alloyed tool steels produced by powder metallurgy. / <p>QC 20121011</p>