ASTM-D1238:2004 Edition
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D1238-04c Standard Test Method for Melt Flow Rates of Thermoplastics by Extrusion Plastometer
Published By | Publication Date | Number of Pages |
ASTM | 2004 | 14 |
1.1 This test method covers measurement of the rate of extrusion of molten resins through a die of a specified length and diameter under prescribed conditions of temperature, load, and piston position in the barrel as the timed measurement is being made.
1.2 Procedure A is a manual cutoff operation based on time used for materials having flow rates that fall generally between 0.15 and 50 g/10 min. Procedure B is an automatically timed flow rate measurement used for materials having flows from 0.50 to 900 g/10 min. By both procedures, the piston travel is generally the same during the timed measurement; the piston foot is about 46 and 20.6 mm above the die. Comparable flow rates have been obtained by these procedures in interlaboratory round-robin measurements of several materials described in . Provision is made for calculation of melt volume-flow rate as well as melt mass-flow rate.
Note 1
Round-robin testing indicates this test method may be suitable at flow rates up to 1500 g/10 min if the timing clock resolves the elapsed time to the nearest 0.01 s.
Note 2
This test method and ISO 1133-1991 are technically equivalent.
This standard does not purport to address the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use. Specific precautionary statements are given in 5.7, 10.2.12, and 15.1.2.
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1 | Scope Referenced Documents Terminology Significance and Use |
2 | Apparatus FIG. 1 FIG. 2 |
3 | FIG. 3 |
4 | Test Specimen Conditioning Procedural Conditions |
5 | Procedure A—Manual Operation TABLE 1 |
6 | Procedure B—Automatically Timed Flow Rate Measurement TABLE 2 |
7 | Procedure C— Automatically Timed Flow Rate Measurement for High Flow Rate Polyolefins Using Half-Height, Half Diameter Die TABLE 3 |
8 | Calculation (Procedures B and C) Procedure D—Multi-Weight Using Automatically Timed Flow Rate Measurement TABLE 4 |
9 | TABLE 5 TABLE 6 TABLE 7 TABLE 8 |
10 | Report Precision and Bias (Procedures A, B, and C) |
11 | Precision and Bias (Procedure D) TABLE 10 TABLE 11 TABLE 12 TABLE 13 Keywords X1. EXTRUSION PLASTOMETER BORE ALIGNMENT X1.1 TABLE 9 |
12 | X2. TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE X2.1 Basic Programs X2.2 Understanding How Melt Flow Rate is Affected |
14 | REFERENCES |