The effects of blowing agent, talc, and injection velocity on properties of polypropylene molded parts were presented. Blowing agent was dosed to plastic in amounts 1–2% and talc 10–20%. The results of selected properties, such as weight, thickness, hardness, impact strength, tensile strength, and gloss, were presented. The article also presents microscopic investigations. The blowing agent and talc content have a large impact on mechanical properties and gloss of parts than addition of blowing agent. The use of the blowing agent in an amount of 2 wt% will allow the reduce injection cycle time by reducing the hold pressure and hold time. Addition of blowing agents lowers of tensile strength, hardness, impact strength, and significantly affected the gloss. Talc filler contributes to a significant increase in the weight of parts, a decrease in hardness, impact strength, and tensile strength. The injection velocity has no significant effect on parts properties.
This article presents the results of examination of processing conditions such as mold T f and injection T w temperature influence on mechanical properties of the moldings made of copolymer ABS (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene) without and with a coloring agent in the form of a pigment and its masterbatches. The pigment was added in the amount of 1 wt ‰ and 2 wt ‰, while the masterbatches were added in the amount of 1 wt % and 2 wt %. The mechanical properties of the molded parts were determined in hardness, impact strength and tensile strength tests. The analysis of the obtained results allowed to state that the addition of the coloring agent in a form of pigment does not significantly affect the values of hardness and impact strength. However, the change of the processing conditions, e.g., increasing the mold temperature, contributed to the decrease of hardness and, at the same time, to the increase of impact strength. The tensile strength of the moldings made of ABS without and with the addition of the masterbatch is similar, regardless of the injection molding parameters, whereas their strain at break and Young's modulus change, depending on the injection molding parameters. When using the low values of the mold temperature (30 °C) and injection temperature (230 °C), lower values of Young's modulus were found, however, the aforementioned temperatures allow for obtaining a higher strain at break (noticed for colored samples).
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