Formulation Material Selection

Mastering DMA, DSC, FTIR: How to Integrate for Powerful Material Analysis

Language: English
Length: 90 min
Recorded on: 03 Jun 25

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Course Description

Tired of material analysis guesswork? Master powerful techniques for optimal results! 

It’s time to stop drowning in data from DMA, DSC, and FTIR analyses ending up with no actionable information! Material development and optimization depend on accurate analysis. Don't let limited understanding hold you back.
 

Here's what you risk by missing out: 

  • Misinterpreting data: Leading to costly material selection mistakes and subpar product performance.
  • Inefficient development cycles: Wasting time and resources on materials with hidden flaws.
  • Falling behind the curve: Competitors leveraging advanced analysis techniques will gain a significant advantage.

This course empowers you to effectively cross-reference data (DMA, DSC, FTIR…) from these techniques to gain a holistic understanding of your material's properties (Tg ,HDT , crystallinity, oxidation rate…). Predict performance with greater accuracy, ensuring you choose the right materials for the job.


Register now and take your material development expertise to the next level!

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Jeffrey A Jansen
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Jeffrey A. Jansen is the Engineering Manager and a Partner at The Madison Group, an independent plastics engineering and consulting firm. Jeff is a proven plastic professional with more than 30 years of experience solving problems and addressing opportunities related to polymeric materials. He specializes in failure analysis, material identification and selection, as well as compatibility, aging, and lifetime prediction studies for thermoplastic materials. Jeff has performed over 5,000 investigations, both for industrial clients and as a part of litigation. He regularly presents live seminars and webinars covering a wide range of topics related to plastics failure, material performance, testing, and polymer technology. Jeff is a graduate of Carroll College and the Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Why should you view this course?

Increasingly diverse & advanced plastic materials labs (offering multiple tools like DSC, TGA, DMA, FTIR...) help generate a lot of information.

But without knowing when and how to complement data, your material characterization & analysis process will become costly & time-consuming!

Join this course to:

  1. Design better material analysis plan by clarifying the type of information you will get from each characterization method (DMA, DSC, TGA, FTIR...).

  2. Extract more value (extent of oxidation, HDT, Tg, contamination...) by learning how to efficiently cross data from multiple characterization techniques.

  3. Gain insight into how plastic’s composition and structure can be evaluated analytically.

  4. Wisely optimize performance of your plastics materials by seeing in practice how to proceed on real cases (material identification, contamination, failure analysis).

Who should join this course?

  • Material Scientists, Engineers, Quality Control professionals who find difficulties in analyzing and combining data from different characterization tools as part of material characterization & problem solving.

  • This course is suitable for advanced level proficiency
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Questions you will be able to answer after this course:

  1. Why do my material properties vary batch-to-batch even when the formulation is the same?

  2. How do I determine if a material change (e.g., supplier variation, additive change) affects performance?

  3. How can I justify or validate my analytical approach to colleagues, managers, or auditors?

Course Outline

Plastics Development & Role of Multiple Characterization Techniques

Characterization Methods Commonly Employed with Plastics Materials (in the scope of discussion of this course)

  • FTIR: Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
  • DSC: differential scanning calorimetry
  • TGA: thermogravimetric analysis
  • GC-MS: gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy
  • GPC: gel permeation chromatography
  • DMA: dynamic mechanical analysis

When to best use which characterization tool?

Correlation of Material properties & Plastics Performance

  • Crystallinity, Molecular Weight, Thermal History, Specific Heat Capacity, Viscoelasticity, Reaction Kinetics, Degree of cure…

Application of Analytical Techniques to Plastics Developments

  • Polymers/Additives identification (minimize unwanted interactions)
  • Purity / Contamination
  • Oxidative stability

Combination of data generated by different methods

Optimization of Plastics Formulations using data from different methods

  • Polymer Blends Compatibility
  • Addition of Additives/fillers
  • Use of data to optimize formulations

Real life cases on plastics performance optimization (on use of different methods, data extraction and combining info in optimal way)

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Prerequisites for this course

It is recommended that participants have a basic understanding of:

  • Polymer science and relation with material properties.
  • Familiarity with analytical techniques such as Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA), Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR).
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