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Victims of domestic violence will have a larger facility next summer.The Henry County Board of Commissioners approved a resolution awarding a bid to construct a new facility for Haven House, a domestic violence, emergency shelter. The approval came during the board's regular meeting on Monday. The new shelter will replace the existing one, which was built more than 100 years ago, said Marjorie Lacy, Haven House executive director. It will have the capacity to handle between 40 and 50 people, compared to the 18 to 20 people the shelter assists now, said Lacy. The new facility will be 15,500 square feet, said Ronald Burckhalter, Henry County Special Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST)/Capitol Projects director. The county received 18 bids for the work, and chose the lowest bidder, Classic Plains Construction, based in Marietta. It will be built at a cost of $1,286,900, which means the project could come in under budget, Burckhalter told county commissioners. "The total budget is $2 million," he said, and will be taken from the county's SPLOST III budget. "It's going to have two wings, one for adult, single women, who come in with no children," said Lacy. "We'll be able to have 12 singles, and we'll be able to have eight families. We currently only have four singles, and room for four or five families." The present shelter is sometimes overcrowded, she said. "Our capacity is 18, officially, [but] we often have to do 20, because there's such a need," said Lacy. "We frequently rent motel rooms to take the overage." In addition to the two residential wings, the facility will have an additional wing for staff, said Burckhalter. Construction is expected to begin by early August, and should take 12 months to complete, he said. Lacy said it has not known, at this point, what will happen to the current facility, when the new building is completed. "I would be surprised if it didn't get knocked down; it's in really bad shape," she said. Lacy reiterated that the new shelter will boost the county's capacity to help women and children in need. "It's going to help so much," she said. "It's going to be a much nicer place for them to go." District IV County Commissioner Reid Bowman said the bids provided by the 18 vendors gave the county a broad choice in selecting a company to do the work. The next-lowest bid, provided by Headley Construction Corp. in Newnan, was $1,316,000. "I don't know anything about Classic Plains [the lowest bidder], however, I do know the majority of the other bidders," said Bowman, who owns a Stockbridge construction company. "Headley Construction was the company that built the first recreation center for District IV. Headley's been around for an awfully long time, which makes that low number look a little better. I get a little concerned when somebody I've never heard of can [bid] that low." Classic Plains made changes to the original design of the building, which saves construction costs, Bowman said. "He's done a good job of it," he added. "The things that weren't needed, he's cut out some of the bells and whistles, and you can see it in the numbers. It reflects in the numbers."
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bone in Tagalog
translation and definition "bone", English-Tagalog Dictionary online
Translations into Tagalog:
- buto[anatomiya]material
- butóA composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- wesomaterial
Other meanings:
Any of the components of an endoskeleton, consisting mainly of calcium phosphate, collagen and cells.
To study intensively, as before an exam.
slang: have sexual intercourse with
To polish boots to a shiny finish
(uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
(slang) shortened form of trombone
One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
(transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
(countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
corset part
To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
to remove bones
(vulgar, slang, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
To remove the fishbones from.
(slang) Dominoes or dice.
component of a skeleton
An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
(informal) Said of something that is rubbish or broken.
(Australian, dated) (in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
A bone of a fish; a fishbone
To remove the bones from.
(US, informal) A dollar.
bone colour:
To study (see also bone up)
(slang) An erect penis; a boner.
Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
Automatic translation:
Similar phrases in dictionary English Tagalog. (1)
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Posted January 23, 2013 at 9:30AM
I'd always thought we were a Parliamentary Democracy, and, as such, we elect paid representatives to take difficult decisions on our behalf.
Membership of Europe is a difficult , complicated topic, and most people (including myself) would be hard pushed to appreciate all the pros and cons - so the populace will now be bombarded by media propaganda aimed at the lowest common denominator, I suspect.
Loads of 'crazy' EU stories will emerge and be fed to the Great British public, with 'good' EU stories being more difficult to show. Hence the media barons will, once again, get their way and politicians can then 'blame' us if it turns out bad.
Weak leadership I'm afraid.
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Posted January 29, 2013 at 2:12PM
fourm member
You don't live in London do you!
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Posted January 29, 2013 at 2:57PM
You don't live in London do you!
i do, and have done so for the past 40 years. When I first came to live and work in London it struck me as a big, bustling, impersonal kind of place; a huge city which swallowed you up, and - if you wanted it that way - left you to live a fairly anonymous existence. It was then a multi-racial city, as it has been for centuries, and racism was widespread.
Large numbers of Caribbean immigrants had entered the country in the 1950's,and that continued into the '60s - these people made a big contribution to the rebuilding of the post-war London economy.
Nothing much has changed, to be honest, except the immigrant population has increased. London, like New York, is a multi-racial city and no mistake. That it (largely) works is a tribute to the honest, hard-working people of all nationalities who just get on with the process of making a living. In a shrinking world we had all better get used to the fact that there will be immigration and all that goes with it.
Bleating on about the good old days makes me laugh - they were never as good as some people like to think. Give me modern multiculturalism any day. I love the feeling of vibrancy that London has, and I certainly wouldn't want to see it change.
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Posted January 29, 2013 at 3:06PM
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Although we both live in London FE we live on the outskirts, leafy Elstree and Radlet along with Ruislip and Harefield don't I think have the same, shall we say "problems" of the inner city?
Would you choose to send your children to school where English is a second language and 99% of the class where non white?
Because I wouldn't!
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Posted January 29, 2013 at 3:38PM
I have lived in various parts of London, the inner city included, and once had an office in the heart of Brixton. The people there were as friendly as in any leafy suburb.
My children went to a school with large numbers of Japanese children, children from the Philipines, Hong Kong, and Nigeria. At university they made many friends, including students from overseas, and some of those friendships have lasted into adulthood.
Life is what you make it,and saying that you wouldn't want to send your child to a school that had lots of children from ethnic minorities means that you're making decisions for them that will simply perpetuate racism in society. You're an anachronism, but fortunately your views are held by a minority. A vociferous minority, but that doesn't matter - the minority will not prevail in the long term.
Anyway, what have non-white children got to do with an EU referendum?
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Posted January 29, 2013 at 3:44PM
For what it's worth I was born in the East End and, apart from 8 years in Zambia lived and worked in London or the suburbs until I was 51. My grandfather was an Irish 'navvie' so I expect he was viewed with suspicion by the 'natives' when he arrived in London.
But that is irrelevant to being able to see the foolishness in that woman saying that, when she moved from Staffordshire she found London to be an unfriendly place and today it is an unfriendly place.
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Posted January 29, 2013 at 4:17PM
Forum Editor
I may be an anachronism, but I am not alone in my views. Whether I'm in the minority is debatable, I guess we shall have to wait until we get to vote to see how the land lies.
fourm member
I respect your opinion, but you must understand that life for some of the older indigenous population in some areas has changed beyond all recognition. They don't like it and feel threatened by it. whether that is a real or imagined fear, it is a fear nonetheless.
They feel ignored and marginalised and yes, some feel like foreigners in their own country. It is easy for you and people like you to call them racists. It is the "get out of jail free" card that all Guardianistas use to stifle any debate on immigration.
But I digress, let us keep the thread on track. One of the main reasons I wish to leave the EU is to wrest control of our own borders back from Brussels.
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Posted January 29, 2013 at 6:19PM
I've been accused, before, of being the mouthpiece for Tory Central Office and now, it seems, I'm a Guardianista.
Calling someone a racist is not about stifling debate about immigration. If the only difference between the London this woman moved to and London now is that the skin colour of the unfriendly people has changed then the only basis of complaining now is racism.
But, as you say, let's keep the thread on track.
'to wrest control of our own borders back from Brussels.'
What does that mean? The UK has always maintained its own border controls. That's why you can't travel to Calais to do some booze shopping without a passport but you can cross from France to Belgium at 70 mph.
The decisions on immigration that you object to so much have all been made by British politicians.
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Posted January 29, 2013 at 6:28PM
It is the "get out of jail free" card that all Guardianistas use to stifle any debate on immigration.
Immigration? There was I, thinking you said **"Would you choose to send your children to school where English is a second language and 99% of the class where non white? Because I wouldn't!"**
That's not a debating point about immigration, it's about race. You're falling over your own prejudices.
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Posted January 29, 2013 at 6:40PM
"But I digress, let us keep the thread on track. One of the main reasons I wish to leave the EU is to wrest control of our own borders back from Brussels"
Whether on agrees or not with Flack 99 (I do not), as will be seen from the Citizenship quiz, the two biggest ethnic minority groups are from India and Pakistan, followed by the Caribbean. These were allowed in by British Governments - the EU had no part in it.Ie we have never had control of our borders in the sense that Flack99 means.
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Posted January 29, 2013 at 7:10PM
john bunyan
Precisely. From the tone of the debate in the media, it seems some people think that, if we leave the EU, the PM will be round for a cuppa everyday to check that planned policies are acceptable.
It's all completely illogical. The same people calling for us to give up the ECHR so we can 'get tough on criminals' are exasperated that UK politicians deny the 'public will' by refusing to allow capital punishment.
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I have what I believe to be sports hernias on BOTH sides unfortunately. The right side was pretty bad about 2 years ago, but gradually got to the point where it's nothing..I'd wear a support and ice the area.
Now I have a more serious issue with my left side that seemed to flare up badly about 3 weeks ago. I turned quickly to retrieve a lob and felt a strange sensation in my groin. I thought it was just a groin strain, but when I could barely lift my trunk up the next morning, with pain from my groin to my lower abdominals, I knew it was something else. I took a week off from activity completely.
This has absolutely killed what speed I had remaining at 40..my first step in any direction is hindered badly by this injury. I used to get "man you cover a lot of ground" all the time from opponents..now I'm just another old guy who winces every time he has to move or stop quickly.
I've been doing light abdominal and core work (the lack of which was most likely the cause of the injury, everyone take heed), icing it at night, taking Ibuprofen and applying heat rub before matches, and the pain is now tolerable, and I woke up this morning felling significantly better, only mild discomfort. My next match is Wednesday so we'll see how that goes.
If anything, with the first injury, I've proven to myself that you can recover from this. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else, just telling you my own anecdote.
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She was unharmed and later remarked that she was made of "pretty tough stuff" and commended police for their actions.
Some 200 supporters of indigenous rights had surrounded a Canberra restaurant and banged its windows while Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbott were inside officiating at an award ceremony.
Around 50 police escorted the political leaders from a side door to a car.
Ms. Gillard stumbled, losing a shoe. Her personal security guard wrapped his arms around her and supported her to the waiting car, shielding her from the angry crowd.
The protesters had been demonstrating for indigenous rights nearby at the so-called Aboriginal Tent Embassy, a ramshackle collection of tents and temporary shelters in the national capital that is a centre point of protests against Australia Day.
Australia Day marks the arrival of the first fleet of British colonists in Sydney on January 26, 1788.
Many Aborigines call it Invasion Day because the land was settled without a treaty with traditional owners. Mr. Abbott appeared to be the target of protesters, who shouted "shame" and "racist" outside the restaurant.
The Tent Embassy celebrated its 40th anniversary on Thursday.
Mr. Abbott had earlier angered indigenous activists by saying it was time the embassy "moved on".
Ms. Gillard was unharmed and later hosted another Australia Day function for foreign Ambassadors at her official residence. "The only thing that angers me is that it distracted from such a wonderful event," Ms. Gillard told reporters.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Six months ago, Ron Rivera didn't know Cam Newton.
Now his livelihood as a first-time NFL head coach largely depends on him.
When an NFL team bottoms out and is forced to make a coaching change, it's not uncommon to follow up by drafting a quarterback No. 1 overall, as the Carolina Panthers did earlier this offseason. And history teaches us the future success of both men in the NFL is often intertwined.
In other words, if Newton thrives in the NFL, chances are so will Rivera.
|Cam Newton and Ron Rivera became a team at the draft on April 28, for better or worse. (US Presswire)
Since 1987, a dozen NFL teams have made a coaching change and then acquired a quarterback with the No. 1 pick that same offseason. Of the previous 11 teams, only twice have the quarterback and coach paired up to win a Super Bowl.
The Dallas Cowboys did it.
In 1989, they hired Jimmy Johnson as their new coach and selected Troy Aikman with the first pick in the draft. Although Aikman was 0-11 as a starter his rookie season, he matured quickly and won three Super Bowls, two of those with Johnson and another with Barry Switzer. Johnson and Aikman parlayed their on-field accomplishments into successful broadcasting careers with Fox Sports.
More than a decade later, the New York Giants repeated the feat, hiring Tom Coughlin and making a draft-day trade with San Diego for Eli Manning, the top pick in the draft. Four seasons later Manning found Plaxico Burress in the end zone in the closing minutes to help the Giants end New England's bid for a perfect season in Super Bowl XLII.
Others have come close.
In 1993, the New England Patriots hired Bill Parcells away from TV and added Drew Bledsoe with the No. 1 pick. Three years later they reached Super Bowl XXXI before losing to Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers.
Cincinnati has had some success with Marvin Lewis and Carson Palmer, although they've never quite maximized their potential and that relationship seems headed for divorce.
For the most part, that is the way these relationships end -- without much success.
New coaches who've taken over a team with the worst record in the league have struggled to bounce back, even when given the best quarterback coming out of college.
In 2005, Mike Nolan landed a gig with the San Francisco 49ers, but never finished out his contract largely because Alex Smith never materialized into a star quarterback. The same could be said with Chris Palmer and Tim Couch in Cleveland in 1999 and Tampa Bay's Ray Perkins and Vinny Testaverde in 1987.
Likewise, things never quite worked out as Houston owner Bob McNair would have liked when the expansion Texans hired Dom Capers and paired him with David Carr. They went through four losing seasons before Capers was fired.
But clearly the biggest disaster, and perhaps Carolina's biggest fear, is what happened just four years ago in Oakland when the Raiders hired Kiffin and paired him with Russell, a star quarterback at LSU.
Kiffin lasted only 20 games before a highly publicized quarrel with confrontational owner Al Davis led to his release. Russell's career, which included a 7-18 record as a starter, was over within three seasons.
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There was one exception to the rule of a quarterback's play determining a coach's future.
In 1998, Colts general manager Bill Polian took Peyton Manning with the first pick in the draft. But Manning's first coach, Jim Mora, did little with the future Hall of Famer and he parted ways with the Colts after three unsuccessful seasons. It wasn't until Tony Dungy took over that Manning and the Colts won the Super Bowl.
So what will happen with the Panthers, a team that finished 2-14 last season, prompting owner Jerry Richardson to let John Fox walk after nine seasons and hire Rivera, who ultimately drafted Newton, the Heisman Trophy winner from Auburn, with the No. 1 overall pick?
Only time will tell.
But Newton is confident he's a good fit in Carolina.
"I really look forward to a long-lasting relationship with Coach Rivera," Newton said. "I think I've grown on Coach Rivera throughout this whole process and I admire the type of coach he is and his whole mentality as a coach. When the draft got done I felt extremely confident and comfortable being with an excellent coach and a part of an excellent coaching staff."
Offensive tackle Jordan Gross said it's impossible to know how Rivera and Newton will mesh because the Panthers haven't even had a practice together thanks to the ongoing lockout.
But he feels like after getting to know Rivera briefly and spending time with Newton during two weeks of player workouts at Charlotte Christian High School that both men have outstanding track records and are driven to succeed.
"There's no doubt their success depends on each other a little bit," Gross said. "And I think both are doing everything right.
"When I talked to Coach Rivera before the lockout started, he has a plan and has everything in place and knows what he wants to do."
Newton came to Carolina with plenty of questions marks, some questioning his desire for greatness.
But so far he has done everything you can ask for in his preparation to take the step to the next level.
Aside from working at the IMG Football Academy with ex-Panther Chris Weinke and former Ron Chudzinski understudy Ken Dorsey, Newton also made a point to make it to all eight player-organized practices over the course of two weeks, even though that meant flying to Washington, D.C., to meet with President Obama to celebrate Auburn's BCS championship and returning to Charlotte just hours later so he could be ready for the following day's practice.
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"I think the first thing is he's here," said punter Jason Baker of Newton last week at the player workouts. "You see him interacting and having fun with the guys. I think it's kind of a family atmosphere and it's kind of relaxed."
Baker said Newton participated in all player activities, including a trip to the U.S. Whitewater Center in Charlotte last week following practice.
"We have guys on the team that decided not to be out here and he's a guy who decided to be out here and I'm proud of him for that," Baker said. "I know he's in good shape and working out, so everything I've seen from him has been encouraging."
Said Gross: "Cam has just come in and kind of kept quiet and had fun with the guys and just tried to fit in and earned some respect by working hard and doing things right. He's thrown some great passes and gotten under center and been vocal with his cadence when we've done our team offense stuff. But overall he's shown that he's in shape and willing to work hard."
Newton shrugs his wide, chiseled shoulders when told of his teammates' comments.
He said there's nowhere else he would rather have been than in Charlotte building new relationships with his teammates.
"I just wanted to come out here and try to meet the guys and try to get an idea about what each player was about," Newton said. "You can talk on the phone or text each other but that can only go so far. We had a lot of opportunities to meet with each other as far as going out to eat and having small talk. That is what you get with team chemistry. And you can't get that on the phone."
For Newton, the process of developing into a starting NFL quarterback could take some time.
He faces a hurdle other top picks haven't -- a lockout that has prevented players from participating in minicamps and OTAs, thus potentially steepening the learning curve. Sure, he was given a copy of the Panthers playbook when the courts briefly lifted the lockout in April and said he feels like he has a good grip on the offense.
But nothing comes close to working alongside coaches.
Newton won a national title last season with the Tigers, but understands that his success at the NFL level will require an even greater dedication.
"The one big thing is preparation," Newton said. "Obviously preparing to play quarterback at the NFL level is completely different than at the college level. Also, the terminology, the blitz schemes and, at the end of the day, the reality is you're not playing freshman anymore. You are playing grown men and that is where speed comes into play. In college they can show you something on defense to some degree, but in the NFL you see these guys walking around and doing an excellent job of disguising their blitzes."
Background concerns have followed Newton to Carolina, but Rivera said he likes the young man for a variety of reasons.
"The thing that stood out, and I find kind of impressive too, is he had the situation at one point that could have really tore him down and, if anything, you can say he rose above it, became a champion on the junior college level, became a champion at the NCAA Division I level and won the Heisman Trophy," Rivera said. "In spite of all the distractions, all the turmoil, the young man rose above it and that spoke very highly, I think, of his character being able to learn and grow from his situation and become the player and the person that he is right now. This was not done lightly."
The good news for the Panthers is that Newton, who referred to himself as an "icon and entertainer" before the NFL Draft, seems willing to do everything in his power to become a team player in Carolina and ensure Rivera's tenure will be a lengthy one.
But there's still work to be done.
"We won't just give him respect, that's for sure," linebacker Jon Beason said. "He's going to need to earn it."


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Ultrasonic characterization of phase morphology of high density polyethylene/polyamide 6 blend melts.
The phase morphology of multiphase polymer blends, as well as its evolution, is a basic issue in polymer processing area (1). The size, shape, spatial distribution, and time evolution of the dispersed phase, which are the focus of the morphology control, decide to a large extent the macro-properties of the materials. Therefore, characterizing the morphology of multiphase polymer blends has been considered as the key to investigate the relationship of structure and properties.
Presently, the morphology characterization is mostly based on microscopy (e.g., scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and atom force microscopy (AFM)), from which the microstructure can be observed directly. However, all the methods mentioned above are mostly confined to off-line characterizing the samples in the solid phase. Apart from time-consuming, the analytic results are not always precise as the samples just come from a small portion of the whole specimen (2). Moreover, measurements usually require separate sample preparation (e.g., quenching the melts rapidly), which may significantly alter the original state due to the different thermo-physical property of each phase. Thus, research and development of the rapid in situ characterization techniques aiming at the phase morphology of blend melts have been deemed to be a necessary and meaningful work.
In recent years, optical-related technologies have been successfully applied to polymer processing for real-time monitoring the morphological evolution during the melt blending. Leukel et al. (3) placed an optical microscope in an extruder die for real-time image observation and proved that this method is effective for characterizing the morphology of polymer blends resulting from the extrusion process. Light scattering techniques, which are based on the interaction between the light and the polymer melts, have been used to predict the concentration and the particle sue of dispersed phase. A succession of representative studies were performed by the following research groups, i.e., Sheng et al. (4), (5), Schlatter et al. (6), and Hobbie et al (7), (8). However, the need of sapphire optical windows and the desire of good light transmission properties for materials greatly limited the application of these techniques.
Ultrasonic diagnosis, as a novel method with the favorable fast, nonintrusive, real-time and convenient characteristics, appears to be appealing in this aspect for the measurements can be conducted in highly concentrated or optically opaque dispersions (9). Parameters such as ultrasonic velocity (or transit time) and attenuation can provide useful information on the morphology of polymer blends. Experimental studies of ultrasound signal dependence on the compatibility of polymer blends have been widely performed in polymeric solution and solid phase. Hourston et al. (10-12) and Sing et al. (13-15) suggested that ultrasonic velocity varied linearly with the blend composition for miscible blends, while it deviated from linearity if the miscibility of polymer blends decreased. He et al. (16) used ultrasonic attenuation to investigate blend morphology, and the results showed that attenuation depended on the size of dispersed phase and a discontinuity of scattering attenuation was always observed as phase inversion occurred.
Few authors have tried to study blend melts using ultrasound due to the heavy absorption and strong interference of detection signal, as well as the high temperature which limits the application of the transducer. Thanks to the work of Jen's group (17), a novel ultrasound transducer equipped with a clad metallic buffer rod can be successfully applied to the polymer melts and recently a series of work have been carried out. Based on the fact that the alteration in molecular chain orientation could result in a change in the sonic velocity of polymer melt, Li et al. (18-20) in-line investigated the relaxation of orientation and disorientation of various polyolefins. Villanueva et al. (21) fixed the ultrasound sensors (US) onto the extruder exit, and real-time studied the effects of screw configuration and clay nature on the dispersion of nanoclays in a LDPE matrix. Other works such as in-line monitoring the composition ratio (22), the residence time distribution (23), and the polymer degradation (24) were also conducted. However, few attentions have been paid to the blend morphology and the attempt to associate the acoustic parameters with the phase morphology is rarely reported (25).
High density polyethylene (HDPE) and polyamide 6 (PA6) are semicrystalline plastics, which have versatile industrial applications. HDPE has excellent low temperature flexibility, low cost, and good resistance to moisture permeation (26), while PA6 shows high strength, favorable thermo-mechanical characteristics, and good resistance to oxygen permeation and hydrocarbons (27). Thus, it is conceivable that blends of HDPE and PA6 (HDPE/PA6) can synergically combine the merits of both components, provided that the blends are appropriately compatibilized and the corresponding phase morphology gets optimized.
In this work, the immiscible HDPE/PA6 blends with 10, 20, and 30 wt% of a dispersed PA6 phase were prepared. Different amounts of HDPE grafted with maleic anhydride (HDPE-g-MAH), as a reactive compatibilizer, were added to obtain the different PA6 phase size. The morphology of the samples was firstly characterized by the conventional SEM. Then ultrasonic diagnosis as a novel technique was performed to investigate the influences of the PA6 concentration and the HDPE-g-MAH content on the ultrasonic velocity and attenuation. This work aims to explore the relationship between the ultrasonic parameters and the phase morphology for the droplet-matrix blend melts, which lays the foundation for the potential application of in-line ultrasonic diagnosis in the polymer processing.
A commercial HDPE (5000S) with a density of 0.946 g/[cm.sup.3] and a melt How index of 1.0 g/10 min (190[degrees]C, 2.16 kg) was purchased from Lanzhou Petrochemical Co., China. PA6 (M3400) with a density of 1.14 g/[cm.sup.3] and a flow melt index of 6 g/10 min (230[degrees]C, 2.16 kg), was obtained from Guangdong Xinhui Meida-DMS Nylon Chips Co., China. HDPE-g-MAH with maleic anhydride content of 0.8 wt% and a (low melt index of 1.2 g/10 min (190[degrees]C, 2.16 kg) was supplied by Ningbo Nengzhiguang New Materials Technology Co., China.
Blending Preparation
Compatibilized and uncompatibilized HDPE/PA6 blends were prepared by melt mixing with an intermeshing corotating twin-screw extruder (Haake Rheomex, PTW16/25). The temperatures of different zones were set to 240[degrees]C, except that those of feeder and die were 190 and 235[degrees]C, respectively. The feeding and screw speed were separately 40 and 60 rpm. Prior to melt blending, the pellets of PA6 and HDPE-g-MAH were dried in a vacuum oven at 85[degrees]C for 24 h to avoid the effects of moisture. The extruded strands were cooled by air and then pelletized.
Three composition ratios (wt/wt) of HDPE/PA6 blends were 90/10, 80/20, and 70/30. For each blend composition, the concentrations of HDPE-g-MAH ranging from 0 to 10 wt% with respect to the HDPE/PA6 resin were used.
Morphological Analysis
Samples for the morphological analysis were prepared through compression molding at 230[degrees]C. The phase morphology was examined by Philips XL30FEG SEM operated at an accelerating voltage of 10 kV. To create better contrast, samples were fractured in liquid nitrogen, etched by formic acid to remove the PA6 particles, then sputter-coated with Au before SEM observation.
The SEM micrographs were analyzed by the JEOL Smile View software. At least 300 diameters were measured per sample. The number average diameter ([D.sub.n]) was then calculated by:
[D.sub.n] = [[SIGMA].sub.i][N.sub.i][D.sub.i] / [[SIGMA].sub.i][N.sub.i], (1)
where D, and /V, were the diameter and number of particles, respectively.
Ultrasonic Instrumentation and Measurement Principles
Ultrasonic measurements were performed on a homemade slit die which was fitted to the barrel exit of the capillary rheometer (RH7, Malvern). Details of the setup were illustrated in Fig. 1. Two flush-mounted US were diametrically opposed across the die to emit and receive longitudinal waves with a central frequency of 5.0 MHz. Two pressure transducers (P2, P3) with J-type thermocouples were used to measure the melt pressure and temperature ([T.sub.m]). A wrapped-on heating jacket with a piecewise proportion integral differential program was employed to control the die temperature ([T.sub.die), which ensured that the [T.sub.m] in the slit die was consistent with that in the capillary rheometer. All the sensors were connected to the GIM1 system (PACE Simulations) composed of an ultrasonic pulser-receiver, a sampling digital oscilloscope, and an automated data acquisition system. And by this device, we could simultaneously track the evolution of temperature, pressure, and ultrasonic velocity and attenuation of the polymer melt in the slit die. In this work, pellets were first held in the barrel of capillary rheometer for melting, and then the melts were forced into the slit die at a constant speed of 10 mm/min and finally stayed in the slit die. All the measurements were performed at 230[degrees]C after enough relaxation until the melt pressure was zero and the ultrasonic velocity was unchanged. Each sample was taken for five measurements, and the mean values of the sound velocity and attenuation were then obtained, respectively.
Figure 2 showed the schematic of ultrasound propagation in the polymer me 11 which was confined between two aligned steel buffer rods. The longitudinal waves with amplitude of [a.sub.0] traveled to the steel/polymer interface where part of its energy went through the molten polymer with a thickness d = 2 mm. The acoustic wave was then reflected back and forth between the two interfaces. This produces a series of echo signals, [A.sub.1], [A.sub.2] ..., exiting from the second interface and directed toward the receiving transducer (Fig. 3). Usually, the first and second echoes were used for calculation of the ultrasonic velocity and attenuation. By measuring the flying time ([t.sub.1] and [t.sub.2]) and the amplitude ([A.sub.1] and [A.sub.2]) of the two successive echoes, the ultrasonic velocity (C) and attenuation (a) in the polymer melt can be separately expressed as follows:
C = 2d/[t.sub.2] - [t.sub.1], (2)
[chi] = 20[log.sub.10]([A.sub.1] / [A.sub.2])/2d, (3)
Morphological Observations
The SEM images of the 90/10, 80/20, and 70/30 HDPE/PA6 blends with different amounts of HDPE-g-MAH are presented in Figs. 4, 5, and 6, respectively. It can be seen that PA6 phase is dispersed in HDPE matrix in the form of spherical particles, which is known as the typical droplet-matrix morphology. As is expected, the phase morphology takes on increasingly refined structure with the increasing amount of HDPE-g-MAH due to the effect of reactive compatibilization. The statistic average sizes of PA6 particles as a function of HDPE-g-MAH content for the three compositions are depicted in Fig. 7. It can be seen that for all the compositions, the particle size first decrease sharply with the increase of the HDPE-g-MAH content, and then gradually levels off, following a typical behavior of an emulsion curve (28). The following exponential equation (29) provides a good estimate of the dependency of the particle size on the HDPE-g-MAH concentration.
([D.sub.n,c] - [D.sub.n,[infinity]]) / ([D.sub.n,0] - [D.sub.n,[infinity]]) = exp(-nc), (4)
where [D.sub.n,c] is the number average diameter for a concentration c of HDPE-g-MAH, [D.sub.n,0] is the number average diameter for a blend without HDPE-g-MAH, [D.sub.n,[infinity]] is a constant representative of the limiting particle size, and n is a constant that determines the efficiency of the HDPE-g-MAH as an emulsifier.
Table 1 presents the constants [D.sub.[infinity]] and n for Eq. 4. Ii can be seen that, with the increase of PA6 concentration, [D.sub.[infinity]] gets increased while n shows the opposite. It is suggested that it should add more amounts of compatibilizer for the blends with higher concentration of PA6, to ensure the same emulsifying effect. This can be confirmed by the fact that the particle size increases with the increasing PA6 concentration when the content of HDPE-g-MAH is fixed, which is also shown in Fig. 7.
TABLE 1. Fining parameters of Eq. 4. Blend compositions (HDPE/PA6) [D.sub.n,x] n 90/10 0.72 1.0 80/20 0.96 0.63 70/30 1.2 0..51
Ultrasonic Measurements
On the basis of the above SEM results, the relationship between the ultrasonic parameters, i.e., ultrasonic velocity and attenuation, and the phase morphology will be investigated in the following section. Before we conducted ultrasonic measurements for the HDPE/PA6 blends, the acoustic properties of neat HDPE and PA6 were first measured at 230[degrees]C, and the results were listed in Table 2. For such homogeneous polymer melts, the differences in both the velocity and the attenuation for HDPE and PA6 are mainly originated from the different molecular structure. However, as for the HDPE/PA6 blends, the blend composition and the phase size may have additional effects on the propagation of ultrasound wave considering the presence of the interface.
TABLE 2. Acoustic properties of HDPE and PA6 measured at 230[degrees] Material Velocity (m/s) Attenuation (dB/cm) HDPE 1016 4.95 PA6 1352 3.26
Figure 8 presents the ultrasonic velocity as a function of the HDPE-g-MAH content for the 90/10, 80/20, and 70/30 HDPE/PA6 blends. The velocities seem unchanged irrespective of the HDPE-g-MAH content for the three systems. According lo the results of the SEM observation, it is known that the particle size decreases with the increasing HDPE-g-MAH content. Therefore, the constant velocity means that ultrasonic velocity is insensitive to the variation of the particle size. On the other hand, Fig. 8 also shows that there are velocity differences among the three blend compositions, and the velocity is larger for the blends with more concentration of PA6. Further relationship between ultrasonic velocity and PA6 concentration are shown in Fie. 9. It can be observed that the ultra-sonic velocity of the blends increases linearly with the PA6 concentration up to 30 wt% in our experiment. In terms of the above discussion, it is suggested that the ultrasonic velocity could be used to investigate the concentration of the dispersed phase, but it is unavailable for predicting the phase size.
As it has shown that ultrasonic attenuation is more sensitive than velocity to characterize the compatibility and morphology in solid blend systems (16), it is expected that this sensitivity could remain in the blend melts as well. Figure 10 shows the relationship between the ultrasonic attenuation and the HDPE-g-MAH content for the 90/10, 80/20, and 70/30 HDPE/PA6 blends. It should be noted that the attenuation used here is also called the total attenuation. Contrary lo the behavior of ultrasonic velocity, it m evident that the total attenuation shows great dependence on the HDPE-g-MAH content for the three blend compositions. In general, the attenuation shows an initial sharp decline with the increasing HDPE-g-MAH content, and then gradually levels off, showing the similar behavior as that of the particle size. Further observations can be found that the changes of the total attenuation with the HDPE-g-MAH content are well fitted by the exponential equation as follows.
([[alpha].sub.total,c] - [[alpha].sub.total,[infinity]]) / ([[alpha].sub.total,0] - [[alpha].sub.total,[infinity]]) = exp(-[n.sub.1]c), (5)
where [[alpha].sub.total,c] (is the total attenuation for a concentration c of HDPE-g-MAH, [[alpha].sub.total,0] is the total attenuation for a blend without HDPE-g-MAH, [[alpha].sub.total,[infinity]] is a constant representative of the limiting total attenuation, and [n.sub.1] is a constant that determines the efficiency of HDPE-g-MAH to decrease the total attenuation.
Table 3 presents the constants [[alpha].sub.total,[infinity]] and [n.sub.1] for Eq. 5. It can be found that, with the increase of PA6 concentration, [[alpha].sub.total,[infinity]] gets increased while [n.sub.1] decreases, suggesting that the higher concentration of PA6 in the blend compositions, the more amounts of HDPE-g-MAH should be added to ensure the same reducing effect. This can also be confirmed in Fig. 10, which displays the fact that the total attenuation shows higher value in the blend with more PA6 concentration when the content of HDPE-g-MAH is fixed.
TABLE 3. Filling parameters of Eqs. 5 and 7. Blend compositions (HDPE/PA6) [[alpha].sub. [n.sub.1] [[alpha]. [n.sub.2] total, excess, [infinity]] [infinity]] 90/10 5.39 1.2 0.60 0.94 80/20 6.27 0.53 1.66 0.53 70/30 6.59 0.46 2.15 0.46
In terms of the similarity between the changes of the total attenuation and that of the particle size with the HDPE-g-MAH content, it is reasonable to speculate that the attenuation could indirectly reflect the change of the particle size of the dispersed phase. However, as mentioned above, the ultrasonic attenuation in Fig. 10 refers to the total allenualion ([[alpha].sub.total]), which is mainly originated from the intrinsic wave absorption ([[alpha].sub.intrinsic), as well as the scattering effect due to the presence of the inclusion ([[alpha].sub.excess]). [[alpha].sub.intrinsic] is simply the sum of the absorption of each individual component and can be expressed by [[alpha].sub.intrinsic] = (1 -[PHI])[[alpha].sub.PE] + [PHI][[alpha].sub.PA6], where [[alpha].sub.PE] and [[alpha].sub.PA6] are, respectively, the attenuation of the pure HDPE and PA6, and [PHI] is the weight fraction of PA6. Herein, [[alpha].sub.excess] is mainly concerned, because it depends largely on the inclusion size. The value of [[alpha].sub.excess] can be obtained by subtracting the intrinsic absorption from the total attenuation, and the equation is expressed as follows (25).
[[alpha].sub.excess] = [[alpha].sub.total] - [[alpha].sub.intrinsic] = [[alpha].sub.total] - [(1- [PHI])[[alpha].sub.PE] + [PHI][[alpha].sub.PA6]]. (6)
Figure 11 displays [[alpha].sub.excess] as a function of the HDPE-g-MAH content for the three blend compositions. Similar to the behavior of the total attenuation, the excess attenuation decrease sharply with the increase of HDPE-g-MAH content, then gradually level off. Also, the experimental data can be reasonably well described by the following exponential equation.
([[alpha].sub.excess,c] - [[alpha].sub.excess,[infinity]]) / ([[alpha].sub.excess,0] - [[alpha].sub.excess,[infinity]]) = exp(-[n.sub.2]c), (7)
where [[alpha].sub.excess,c] is the excess attenuation for a concentration c of HDPE-g-MAH, [[alpha].sub.excess,0] is the excess attenuation for a blend without HDPE-g-MAH, [[alpha].sub.excess,[infinity]] is a constant representative of the limiting excess attenuation, and [n.sub.2] is a constant that determines the efficiency of HDPE-g-MAH to decrease the excess attenuation.
The constants [[alpha].sub.excess,[infinity]] and [n.sub.2] for Eq. 7 are also displayed in Table 3. Consistent with the tendency of [[alpha].sub.excess,[infinity]] and [n.sub.1], [[alpha].sub.excess,[infinity]] and [n.sub.2] show the increase and decrease with the increasing concentration of PA6, respectively. Apart from the difference for the 90/10 HDPE/PA6 blends, [n.sub.1] and [n.sub.2] keep the same for the 80/20 and 70/30 HDPE/PA6 blends. This might be ascribed that the contribution from the scattering effect is not large enough for 90/10 HDPE/PA6 blends, while it plays the main role for the other blend compositions. Moreover, if comparing the [n.sub.2] with the n in Table 1, it is found that, for each blend composition, the constant [n.sub.2] is not entirely consistent with but more or less smaller than n. As we mentioned above, the constant [n.sub.2] or n determine the efficiency of the HDPE-g-MAH to decrease the excess attenuation or particle size, so it indicates that ultrasonic results show some delays in reflecting the efficiency of the HDPE-g-MAH compared with the SEM results. Possible reasons may be due to the difference in thermal history, causing a slight difference in the particle size for the samples used for SEM observation and ultrasonic measurement.
Although some differences in the particle size exist for the two characterization method, it is still encouraging to seek the relationship between the present particle size and the excess attenuation. By combination of Figs. 7 and 11, the quantitative relationship between [[alpha].sub.excess] and the particle size of dispersed phase can be obtained in Fig. 12. Figure 12 shows that [[alpha].sub.excess] increases linearly with the increase of the dispersed particle size for all the three blend compositions. By the linear fitting of experimental data, three equations can be obtained as follows, respectively.
For 90/10 HDPE/PA6 blends, [[alpha].sub.excess] = 0.18 + 0.6 x [D.sub.n] (8)
For 80/20 HDPE/PA6 blends, [[alpha].sub.excess] = 1.01 + 0.9 x [D.sub.n] (9)
For 70/30 HDPE/PA6 blends, [[alpha].sub.excess] = 1.25 + 1.0 x [D.sub.n] (10)
Thus, after in-line measuring [[alpha].sub.excess] of HDPE/PA6 blend melts, the particle size of the dispersed phase can be easily calculated using these linear equations. However, it needs to note that, the Eqs. 8-10 have not applied to other immiscible polymer blends up to present, and more experiments need to be conducted in the future to verify the generality of these equations.
In this work, a reliable ultrasonic method was first used to measure the concentration and particle size of the dispersed PA6 phase for PA6/HDPE blend melts. It showed that ultrasonic velocity was insensitive to the particle size but varied linearly with the blend composition in our experimental region. However, the decrease of the ultrasonic attenuation with the addition of HDPE-g-MAH suggested that the attenuation depended greatly on the particle size of the dispersed phase. Similar to the evolution of the particle size, the relationship between the excess attenuation and HDPE-g-MAH content could be reasonably well described by the exponential decay model. Further investigations revealed that there was a good linear relationship between the excess attenuation and the particle size of the dispersed phase, which made it promising for in-line monitoring the morphological evolution by measuring the attenuation of the blend melt during polymer processing.
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