| | 8:30 am - 11:00 am | M14-Rotational Molding Session: New material structures for rotational molding | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Influence of Particle Size in Multi-Layer Rotational Molding With a Multiphase Interlayer to Generate Mechanical Adhesion Martin Löhner, Institute of Polymer Technology (LKT), Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | PREPARATION OF PA6/LLDPE BLENDS BY ROTATIONAL MOLDING Ruben Gonzalez-Nunez, Universidad de Guadalajara | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | ROTATIONAL MOLDING OF POLYLACTIC ACID AND AGAVE FIBER BIOCOMPOSITES Jorge R. Robledo-Ortiz, Universidad de Guadalajara | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Relationships Between Low Temperature Impact Performance and Structures of Rotationally Molded Crosslinked High Density Polyethylene Yueqing Ren, national institute of clean and low carbon energy | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Rotational Molding of Linear Low Density Polyethylene With Different Concentrations of Ground Tire Rubber Denis Rodrigue, Professor, Université Laval | 8:00 am - 11:00 am | M5-Composites Session: Composite Modeling / Analysis-Moderator: Antione Rios | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Material characterization of CF-Nonwovens with thermosetting Matrices Jasmin Mankiewicz, Ph.D Student, Hochschule Niederrhein, University of Applied Science | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | KEYNOTE: A New Strength Tensor Based Failure Criterion for Anisotropic Materials Tim Osswald, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | STUDY OF FIBER LENGTH AND MODELING OF PARTIALLY COMPACTED, COMMINGLED POLYPROPYLENE GLASS FIBER FLEECE COMPOSITES Blanca Maria Lekube, Project Manager, Transfercenter für Kunststofftechnik GmbH | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | LATERAL TORSIONAL BUCKLING OF ANISOTROPIC LAMINATED THIN-WALLED RECTANGULAR SIMPLY SUPPORTED COMPOSITE BEAMS SUBJECTED TO PURE BENDING Habiburrahman Ahmadi, Ph.D Student, Kansas State University | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Optimizing Process Condition of Resin Transfer Molding: Determining Material Properties for Numerical Simulation Joe Wang, CoreTech System Co. Ltd. | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Analytical and Finite Element Buckling Solutions of Fixed-Fixed Anisotropic Laminated Composite Wide Plates under Axial Compression Rund Al-Masri, Kansas State University | 8:30 am - 11:00 am | M6-Composites Session: Nanocomposites I-Moderator: Steve Bassetti | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | A Model for Permeability Reduction in Polymer Nanocomposites Rakesh Gupta, West Virginia University | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | NANOCOMPOSITES OF SEBS/CNT FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING: EFFECT OF PROCESSING METHOD AND MALEIC ANHYDRIDE Scheyla Kuester, École de technologie supérieure de Montréal (ETS) and Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ELECTROSPUN POLYVINYL ALCOHOL FIBROUS NANOCOMPOSITE REINFORCED WITH WOOD FLOUR Sheikh Rasel, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ontario Institute of Technology | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | STABILIZED & OPTICALLY TAILORED PLASMONIC NANOCOMPOSITE PREPARATION USING LABORATORY SCALE EXTRUSION Joshua Orlicki, Army Research Laboratory | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | COMPARISON OF SELECTIVE LOCALIZATION OF SWNTS IN BLENDS OF POWDERED PA6/POLYPROPYLENE AND GRANULE PA6/POLYPROPYLENE Dongho Kang, KITECH | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | M13-Mold Technologies Session-Moderator: Glenn Starkey | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | KEYNOTE: INDUSTRY 4.0 HIGHLIGHTS Jim Mitchell, National Sales Manager, Wittman Battenfeld | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Model Investigation of the Cooling Error Fabian Ullrich, Graduate Student, Hochschule Darmstadt | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | A NEW APPROACH TO MOLD VENTING Colin Nurden, CB Mould Services Inc | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Parametric and Automatic Navigation Process for Electrode Design Yu-Hung Ting, Chung Yuan Christian University | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Bonding Conformally Cooled Molds: Types Of Diffusion Bonding Operations, and the Required Equipment Needed: Norman Hubele, President & Founder, Refrac Systems | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Experimental set up for radiation based in-mold-coating for optical components Larissa Kutscha, Ph.D Student, Robert Bosch GmbH | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | The Study on the Halo Surface Defect of Injection Molded Products Byungohk Rhee, Professor, Ajou University | 8:00 am - 12:00 pm | M10-Flexible Packaging Session: Barrier and Sealing | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Next Generation LDPE Resins for Extrusion Coating Applications Michael Biscoglio, Development Leader, Dow Chemical | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Effect of polymer design and formulation on the performance of water-based acrylic dispersions for heat seal lacquers Jennifer Rigney, BASF | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | HEAT SEALING IN SEMICRYSTALLINE POLYMER FILMS Ranadip Ganguly, Braskem | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Multilayer Polyethylene Films Having Grease Resistant Properties Dan Falla, Nova Chemicals | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | High Gas Barrier Materials with Multilayer Morphology for Packaging Applications Guojun Zhang, A.Schulman | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | INVESTIGATING THE MORPHOLOGY OF HIGHLY GAS-BARRIER LAYER-BY-LAYER ASSEMBLIES OF CLAY AND ALTERNATIVE POLYELECTROLYTES Iman Soltani, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Minnesota | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | OXYGEN TRANSPORT THROUGH THIN PE-CVD COATINGS ON POLYPROPYLENE: STACKING AND TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCY Nafi Yesildag, RWTH Aachen University | 8:00 am - 11:00 am | M12-Medical Plastics Session: New Materials for Medical Applications - Moderator: Louis Somlai | 8:00 am - 9:00 am | INVITED:Polymeric Materials in Lilly Medical Devices Karthik Vaideeswaran, Director of Research and Development and Senior Engineering Advisor, Eli Lilly and Company | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | IMPROVING THE PATIENT EXPERIENCE OF YOUR DRUG DELIVERY USING POLYMERS WITH IMPROVED TRIBOLOGY Kirsten Markgraf, Celanese | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | New Developments in Polymers for Medical Device Housings Cheryl Weckle, Development Scientist, Trinseo LLC | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | High Performance Plastics for Medical Applications Suneel Bandi, EVONIK | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Tecobax™ – A New Class of Thermoplastic Polyurethanes for Medical Applications Tony Walder, Lubrizol | 8:00 am - 10:30 am | M7-Engineering Properties and Structure & Sustainability Join Session-Moderator: Hoang Pham | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Future directions in sustainable packaging Kalyan Sehanobish, Sr. Research Fellow, The Dow Chemical Company | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Recycled PET for Nonwoven Carpet Backing Eberhard Link, Sr. Product Development Engineer, Freudenberg Performance Materials | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Developing Extrusion and Injection Molding Applications for Recycled HDPE and PP John Standish, Technical Director , Association of Plastic Recyclers | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | PCR in Food Contact Applications and How We Got There Tamsin Ettefagh, Vice President of Sales and Purchasing, Envision Plastics | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | D2w Oxo - biodegradable technology and recycling Nivaldo Bosio, Symphony Envirnonmental | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | M3-Bioplastics Session: Biodergradable Polymers and Blends | 8:00 am - 9:00 am | KEYNOTE: Towards Sustainable Resin Systems for Composite Materials John Dorgan, Chair in Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Biodegradability of PLA in compost environment. Qi-Hong Liao, NTUST | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Biopolymer Compounds for Applications Requiring Marine Degradation Mustafa Coskun, Polymer Processing Tech. | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | DEGRADATION OF PBSA IN WATER Douglas Hirt, Professor, Clemson University | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | BLENDS OF POLY(PROPYLENE CARBONATE)/HYDROGENATED NITRILE BUTADIENE RUBBER: MORPHOLOGY AND THERMAL PROPERTIES Ahmad Zohre vand, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Montreal | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | PHA and PLA Biodegradable Plastics with Rice Straw Filler to Create Biobased Structural Insulating Panels(BSIPs) Joseph Greene, Professor, California State University, Chico | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | M11-Injection Molding Session: Simulation I-Moderator: David Okonski | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | How A Multidisciplinary Engineering Research Program Contributed to Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) for Injection Molding? Lih-Sheng Turng, University of Wisconsin-Madison | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | INK-WASH AND WARPAGE DEFECT PREDICTION FROM THE IN-MOLD DECORATION PROCESS SIMULATION Tober Sun, CoreTech System Co. Ltd. | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Optimizing the warpage of injection molding parts using 3D volume shrinkage compensation method Chao-Tsai Huang, Assistant Professor, Tamkang University | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Determination of pressure correction factors to improve the quality of Injection molding simulations Ruben Schlutter, KIMW | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | ANISOTROPIC THERMO-VISCOUS-ELASTIC RESIDUAL STRESS MODEL FOR WARP SIMULATION OF INJECTION MOLDED PARTS Zhiliang Fan, Senior Principal Research Engineer, Autodesk | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Simulation Methodology for Large Part Processing using 2-Shot Injection Compression molding (2K-ICM) Harindranath Sharma, SABIC | 8:00 am - 11:00 am | M17-Thermoplastic Materials and Foams Session: Foam Extrusion and Injection Molding-Moderator: Vipin Kumar | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Cell Nucleation in High-Pressure Foam Injection Molding Raymond Chu, University of Toronto | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Foam Injection-Molding Process Designed to Produce Sub-Micron Cells Stephane Costeux, Dow Chemical | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | MICRO-GRAPHITE ENHANCED EXTRUSION FOAMING OF PET RESIN Feng Chen, Ohio State University | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Simulation of bubble growth in high-pressure foam injection molding Chongda Wang, University of Toronto | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | INFLUENCES OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE ON THE RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES AND FOAMABILITY OF MODIFIED POLYPROPYLENE Yan Li, Florida State University | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH THERMAL INSUATION POLYPROPYLENE FOAMS BLOWN IN INJECTION MOLDING WITH MOLD OPENING Chul Park, Professor, University of Toronto | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | M4-Color and Appearance Session | 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Color Theory Bruce Mulholland, Celanese | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | A Systematic Approach for Color Matching Material that Contains Effect Pigments Breeze Briggs, Technical Specialist for Pigments, BASF | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | EFFECTS OF PROCESSING PARAMETERS ON COLOUR VARIATION AND PIGMENT DISPERSION DURING THE COMPOUNDING Jamal Al Sadi, HCT(ADMC) | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | PROCESSING MICA BASED PIGMENT MASTERBATCH Rob Roden, Steer World | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | EXPLORING POWDER TREATMENTS TO IMPROVE FILLER INCORPORATION FOR OPTICAL COMPOUNDS Erin Keaney, PhD Student , University of Massachusetts-Lowell | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | The Optical Performance of Titanium Dioxide Pigments in Plastics Philipp Niedenzu, Chemours | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | M1-Additive Manufacturing Session: Applications of Additive Manufacturing | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Back injection molding with additiv manufactured mold inserts using all-inkjet printed substrates Thomas Mitterlehner, Researcher, Johannes Kepler University Linz | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | 3D PRINTED HIGHLY ELASTIC STRAIN SENSORS OF MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE/THERMOPLASTIC NANOCOMPOSITES Aboutaleb Ameli, Washington State University | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | A preliminary Study on the Performance of Additive Manufacturing Tooling for Injection Molding Leah Bartlett, Student, Ohio State University | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | INCREASING SURFACE PROPERTIES BY USING AN INTEGRATED SCREW-BASED ADDITIVE AND SUBTRACTIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESS Nicolai Lammert, Scientific Researcher, Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV) RWTH Aachen University | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Demonstration of an Effective Design Validation Tool for 3D Printed Injection Molds (3DPIM) Gil Robinson, Manager of Molding Applications, Stratasys | 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Future of Polymer-Based Additive Manufacturing Panel Discussion,” Kalman Migler, Staff Scientist, National Insititute of Standards and Technology | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | M8-Extrusion Session: Extrusion Science and Technology | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF FILLER CONCENTRATION ON THE FLOW CHARACTERISTICS OF FILLED POLYETHYLENE MELTS Greg Campbell, Castle Research Associates | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | THE RHEOLOGY OF CONCENTRATED SLURRIES: EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION AND THE EFFECTS ON POLYMER PROCESSING Greg Campbell, Castle Research Associates | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | MICROPELLETIZATION OF VIRGIN AND RECYCLED THERMOPLASTIC MATERIALS Christian Schäfer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Polymer Engineering Center (PEC) | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANE FOAMING THROUGH EXTRUSION USING A BLOWING AGENT Qingping Guo, EHC Canada, Inc. | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Rheology of Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene with Hollow Glass Microspheres for Extrusion Process Peng Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | M9-Extrusion Session: Film Extrusion | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | A BASIC EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF CAST FILM EXTRUSION PROCESS FOR FABRICATION OF PLASTIC MICROLENS ARRAY DEVICE Yi Min Hsieh, Graduate Student, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Enhancement of Appearance, Stiffness, and Toughness of Olefinic Blown Films with Cyclic Olefin Copolymers Paul Tatarka, TOPAS Advanced Polymers | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | USING COEXTRUSION LAYER SPLITTING TO IMPROVE FILM TEAR STRENGTH Iyad Muslet, Clopay Plastic Products | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Orienting melt to produce on lab-microscale high performance and ultra thin foils Han Meijer, TU Eindhoven | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | STUDY OF RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION FOR A BLOWN FILM LINE USING INLINE UV-VIS SPECTROSCOPY AND OPTICAL IMAGING ON A FILM BUBBLE Jin Wang, The Dow Chemical Company | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | ON THE ROLE OF EXTENSIONAL RHEOLOGY, ELASTICITY AND DEBORAH NUMBER ON NECK-IN PHENOMENON DURING FLAT FILM PRODUCTION Martin Zatloukal, Tomas Bata University in Zlin | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | INTERFACIAL CRYSTALLIZATION AFFECTS ADHESION OF COEXTRUDED POLYOLEFINS Alex Jordan, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | M2-Automotive Session: Automotive Materials and Processes | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | KEYNOTE-Industry Trends in Automotive Plastics Matt Carroll, Engineering Group Manager in Materials for Body Exterior and Electrical , GM | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Advances in Automotive Industry - Materials and Processes Suresh Shah, Delphi(Rtd) | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Strategies and Future Challenges for Sustainable Materials in Automotive Industry Alper Kizilits, Research Scientist, Ford Motor Company | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Advantages of aliphatic polyketones in automotive fuel systems and under-the-hood components Cary Veith, President, Esprix Technologies | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | An Atmospheric Plasma Process for Producing Stronger, more Permanent Bonds in Injection Molded Plastic-to-Metal Components Andy Stecher, President and Chief Executive Officer, Plasmatreat | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Investigation of processing condition on GMT materials using analytical approach Umesh Gandhi, Executive Scientist, Toyota | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | EVALUATION OF VARIOUS WEIGHT REDUCTION STRATEGIES ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND PART PERFORMANCE Matthew Thompson, Material Development Engineer, Advanced Composites | 8:00 am - 11:00 am | M16-Thermoplastic Elastomers Session - Moderator: Mukul Kaushik | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Fundamentals of Styrenic Block Copolymers Hoan Tran, Market Development Manager, Kuraray America Inc. | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | A New Styrenic Block Copolymer for Polyolefin Modification, Coatings and Adhesives John Flood, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Kraton Corporation | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANE (TPU) FOAMS WITH A LARGE VARIETY OF CELL SIZES Parisa Ghariniyat, Graduate Student, York University | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | INFLUENCE OF WATER EXPOSURE ON SCRATCH-INDUCED DEFORMATION IN POLYURETHANE ELASTOMERS Shuang Xiao, Ph.D Student, Texas A&M | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Twin Screw Extrusion of TPVs Made from Devulcanized Tire Rubber Crumb and Polypropylene Prashant Mutyala, Product Development Engineer, Tyromer | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | USING MICRONIZED RECYCLED TIRE RUBBERS IN THERMOPLASTIC POLYOLEFINS AS A VALUE-ENHANCED SOLUTION TO SUSTAINABILITY Haikun Xu, R&D, Entech, Inc |
| | 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | M24-Composites / Thermosets Joint Session-Moderator: Marc Imbrogno | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | INVESTIGATION OF CHEMICAL FOAMING AGENTS APPLICATION FOR THERMOSET INJECTION MOLDING Stefan Haase, Student, Institut für Kunststoffverarbeitung (IKV) an der RWTH Aachen | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | NEW METRICS FOR EVALUATION OF NETWORK DEFECTS IN GLASSY THERMOSETS Madhura Pawar, Ph.D Student, University of Massachusetts Amherst | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | ENHANCEMENT OF FLAME RETARDANCY OF UNSATURATED POLYESTER RESIN BASED ON DOPO DERIVATIVES AND ALUMINUM HYPOPHOSPHITE Shi Xing Xing, South China University of Technology | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | On the filler orientation of functionalized thermoset molding compounds during injection molding Torsten Maenz, Robert Bosch GmbH | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | INFLUENCES ON THE FLOW BEHAVIOUR OF PHENOLIC MOLDING COMPOUNDS MEASURED IN CONTINUOUS KNEADERS Thomas Scheffler, TU Chemnitz - professorship o plastics | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL FLOW SIMULATION OF RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING PROCESS WITH DRAPING ANALYSIS Sejin Han, Autodesk | 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm | M23-Composites Session: Nanocomposites II-Moderator: Enamul Haque | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | ALIGNED NANOCOMPOSITES FROM CELLULOSE NANOCRYSTALS BY ELECTROSPINNING WITH A SOLUBLE POLYMER FOLLOWED BY THERMOSET IMPREGNATION Craig Clemons, USDA Forest Products Lab | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Enhanced hydrophobicity of Electrospun Polyvinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene membranes by Introducing modified nanosilica Lingli Zhang, South China University of Technology | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | ULTRASONIC PROCESSING OF EPOXY/CNT NANOPAPER COMPOSITES Yanan Zhao, Chemical Engineering, Ohio State University | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | MULTIFUNCTIONAL PLY INTERPHASES IN HIERARCHICAL COMPOSITE LAMINATES Oleksandr Kravchenko, Case Western Reserve University | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | NANOCOMPOSITES FROM LIGNIN-CONTAINING CELLULOSE NANOCRYSTALS AND POLY(LACTIC ACID) Liqing Wei, Research Associate, USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MICROCELLULAR INJECTION AND INJECTION-COMPRESSION MOLDED PPgMA/GRAPHENE NANOCOMPOSITES Shyh-Shin Hwang, Professor, Chien-Hsin University of Science and Technology | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | NON-ISOTHERMAL CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS OF TIN NANOPARTICLES FILLED POLY(ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) Ting Wu, Ph.D Student, South China University of Technology | 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | M30-Mold Technologies and Injection Molding Joint Session | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | INJECTION MOLDING WITH AN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TOOL Jeremy Dworshak, Steinwall | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | DESIGN FOR IN-FLOW TO STRENGTHEN WELD LINES IN INJECTION MOLDED POLYPROPYLENE PARTS David Kazmer, Univ. Mass. Lowell | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Reduction of energy consumption in injection molding of polypropylene parts through the optimization of mold thermal control Giovanni Lucchetta, University of Padua | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | KNOWLEDGE-BASED APPROACH FOR AN AUTOMATIC CAVITY BALANCING FOR INJECTION MOLDING Alexander Porsch, Research Assistant, University of Duisburg-Essen | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | INJECTION MOULDING PILOT PRODUCTION: PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF TOOLING PROCESS CHAINS BASED ON TOOL INSERTS MADE FROM BRASS AND A 3D PRINTED PHOTOPOLYMER Michael Mischkot, DTU Mekanik | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | NEW INNOVATIVE METHOD FOR THE FABRICATION OF SMALL LENS ARRAY MOLD INSERTS Po Cheng Chen, Graduate Students, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences | 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm | M32-Medical Plastics Session: Characterization of Novel Materials and Additives - Moderator: Ho-Seon Jin | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | INVITED SPEAKER-MEDICAL PLASTICS: WHERE TO START WITH MATERIAL SELECTION Brian Ralston, Cambridge Polymer Group | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Combined Birefringence-Tensile Testing of Medical Plastics and Comparison to Finite Element Analysis Robert Klein, Stress Engineering Services, Inc. | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Rapid Evaluation of Surface Properties of Medical Tubing for Process Devel-opment and Quality Assurance Giles Dillingham, CEO and Chief Scientist, BTG Labs | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Antimicrobial Additives for the Healthcare Market: An Overview Roger Avakian, Fellow in Corporate Technology, PolyOne | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Effectiveness of Silver Based Antimicrobial Immersed in a Universal Masterbatch Lawrence Acquarulo, Founder & CEO, Foster Corporation | 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | M26-Engineering Properties and Structure: From Polymer Processing to Polymer Nanocomposites(In honor of Professor Samuel Kenig: 2016 SPE International Award Winner)-Moderators: Stephen Driscoll and Gerry Billovits | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | INJECTION MOLDING MODELING AND STRUCTURING OF FIBER AND NANOPARTICLE REINFORCED POLYMERS S. Kenig, Shenkar College of Engineering & Design | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | The Nano Way - from Adhesion to De-adhesion H Dodiuk, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Residual stresses, Orientation, Birefringence and Anisotropic Shrinkage in Injection and Co-injection Molding Avraam Isayev, Distingusihed Professor Emeritus, The University of Akron | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Multivariate Modeling for Injection Molding David Kazmer, Univ. Mass. Lowell | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Mixing Challenges in Polymer Nanocomposites: Obstacles and Opportunities Ica Manas-Zloczower, Case Western Reserve University | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polymers (LCP): History, Science and Technology M Jaffe, NJIT | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Effect of MnO2 Nanowire on Rheological and Dielectric Properties of PVDF/CNT Hybrid Nanocomposites Uttandaraman Sundararaj, University of Calgary | 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm | M25-Engineering Properties and Structure: Polymeric Modeling-Moderators: Luyi Sun and Jason Lyons | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | TIME-DEPENDENT DELAMINATION OF PLASTIC FILM: OBSERVATION AND MODELING Alexander Chudnovsky, Avery Dennison Corporation | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Role of Polymer Film Mechanical Behavior in Liquid Packaging Application: Deformation Modeling of Gelbo Test Pavan Valavala, Dow Chemical | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | HIGH STRAIN RATE TESTING AND MODELING OF POLYMERS FOR USE IN FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS Sean Teller, Veryst Engineering | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | STATISTICAL MODELING OF TENSILE PROPERTIES OF TALC-FILLED POLYPROPYLENE BASED ON MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION AND NEURAL NETWORK ANALYSES Ilhyun Kim, Korea University | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | LONG FIBER ORIENTATION AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS USING MOLDEX3D, DIGIMAT AND ABAQUS SIMULATIONS Ivor Tseng, CoreTech System Co. Ltd. | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm | M21-Bioplastics Session: Processing of Bioplastics | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Effect of acrylic core-shell impact modifier on processing and thermo-mechanical properties of stereocomplex poly(lactic acid) Jacek Leciński, Ph.D Student, University of Applied Science and Arts, Hannover | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Modified Polylactide With Improved Thermal and Rheological Properties for Foaming Svenja Göttermann, Institut für Kunststofftechnik | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Influence of High-Speed Extrusion on Structure and Properties of Bioplastics Blends Margaret Sobkowicz, Assistant Professor, UMass Lowell | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | WELDING OF PLA David Grewell, Professor, Iowa State University | 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm | M19-Applied Rheology Session: Structure-Process-Property Relationships- Polymer blends, composites and suspensions-Moderator: Tieqi Li | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | INVITED SPEAKER: Component Rheology as a Tool to Design Polymer Blend and Polymer Blend Nanocomposite Morphology Uttandaraman Sundararaj, University of Calgary | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Rheological Properties of Polyethylene Blend with Poor Mixing Masayuki Yamaguchi, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Determining Stretch Properties from Purely Shear Data for Polymer Fluids Donggang Yao, Georgia Tech | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | AN INVESTIGATION ON THE RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF ULTRA-HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE SINGLE-POLYMER COMPOSITES Tong Lian, Graduate Student, Beijing Institute of Technology | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | LINEAR AND NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR ON PP/CNT COMPOSITES PREPARED BY CONTINUOUS ULTRASONIC TWIN-SCREW EXTRUSION Avraam Isayev, Distingusihed Professor Emeritus, The University of Akron | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | A REVISED APPROACH TO RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIOUR AND PROCESSING PARAMETERS OF POLYCARBONATE COMPOUND WITH DISPERSION Jamal Al Sadi, HCT(ADMC) | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | EXTRUSION OF ELASTOMER FILM, EFFECTS OF ELASTOMER DESIGN ON CHILL ROLL STICKING Mary Ann Jones, Senior Research Scientist, Dow Chemical | 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | M29-Failure Analysis and Plastic Pipes & Fittings Join Session: Preventing Failure through Simulation and Characterization of Failure Mechanisms-Moderators: Don Duvall and Jose Perez | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | The evaluation of degradation mechanism of polyolefins, and development of non-destructive evaluating methods Toshio Igarashi, Kanazawa University | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | CHARACTERIZATION OF SLOW CRACK GROWTH RESISTANCE OF POLYETHYLENE PIPE GRADES WITH CYCLIC CRACKED ROUND BAR (CRB) TEST IN CORRELATION TO STRAIN HARDENING (SH) TEST Isabelle Berger, Polymer Competence Center Leoben GmbH | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | A novel approach to evaluate lifetime of complex plastic applications Part I: Short fiber reinforced plastics (SFRP) Joel Thambi, Scientist, SABIC | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | The Cyclic Cracked Round Bar Test as a new standard for accelerated material ranking of polyethylene pipe grades Andreas Frank, Researcher, Polymer Competence Center Leoben GmbH | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Statistical Characteristics in Uniaxial Ductile and Semi-Brittle Tensile Fracture in Polypropylene Films Chun-Yao Li, Kanazawa University | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF DISCONTINUOUS SLOW CRACK GROWTH OF SEMI-ELLIPTICAL SURFACE CRACK IN POLYETHYLENE BASED ON CRACK LAYER THEORY Jung-Wook Wee, Korea University | 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm | M34-Thermoplastic Materials and Foams Session: Foam Applications-Moderator: Chul Park | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | CELLULAR POLYMERS FOR OIL/WATER MIXTURES SEPARATION – EVALUATION OF PROCESS CONDITIONS Pavani Cherukupally, Ph.D Student, University of Toronto | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITY OF THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANE/PZT COMPOSITE FOAMS Gayaneh Petrossian, Masters Student, Washington State University | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | MICRO ORGANIC POLLUTANTS REMOVAL USING A FOAM FILTER THROUGH RATIONALLY SELECTED HYDROPHILIC MEDIA Pavani Cherukupally, Ph.D Student, University of Toronto | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | PERMEABILITY OF NANOPOROUS PEI Vipin Kumar, University of Washington | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | A NEW GAS DIFFUSIVITY MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE FOR CO2 INFUSED POLYMER SYSTEM DURING GAS DESORPTION P. Lee, University of Vermont | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm | M22-Color and Appearance Session | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Color Pathways Through Time Doreen Becker, Strategic Account Manager, A. Schulman, Inc. | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Color Toturial Betty Puckerin, Ampacet | 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm | M18-Additive Manufacturing Session: Modeling/Analysis | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Predicting Short Fiber Composite Material Distribution and Orientation Using Optimization for Additive Manufacturing Applications Delin Jiang, Baylor Univeristy | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Modelling and Validation of a Direct-Write 3D Printed Track John Cordonier, West Virginia University | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Determination of Anisotropic Material Properties of Carbon-Fiber Reinforced FDM-Structures for Numerical Simulations Alexander Kissling, University of Applied Sciences Schmalkalden | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Optimizing 3D Printed Components: A Methodological Approach to Assessing Print Parameters on Tensile Properties Steven Kreuzer, Exponent | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Effect of Die Design on Liquid-Liquid Mixing in Polymer Based Additive Manufacturing Aditya Sangli, University of Maryland, College Park | 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm | M28-Extrusion Session: Film, Sheet and Profile Extrusion Forum - Ask the Experts | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | A Short Overview of Coextrusion Technology for Sheet, Flat Film and Extrusion Coating Applications Olivier Catherine, Cloeren Incorporated | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Optimization of Extrusion Dies for a Uniform Exit Velocity Distribution Mahesh Gupta, Plastic Flow, LLC | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Shear Stress vs Shear Rate as flow channel design criteria John Perdikoulias | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Emerging Barrier Coextrusion Technology for Oriented Polypropylene Films Eldridge Mount | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Q&A From Audience | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm | M27-Extrusion Session: Multi-Screw Extrusion | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Control of Morphology Developments in Polymer Blending Using Reactive Extrusion Technology Tadamoto Sakai, Professor, Shizuoka University | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Direct Extrusion of PVC on the Planetary Roller Extruder Michael Batton, Entex | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | EFFECT OF SCREW SPEED ON POLYETHYLENE-CALCIUM CARBONATE COMPOSITES PRODUCED USING TWIN AND QUAD SCREW EXTRUDERS Mansour Albareeki, Ph.D Student, UMass-Lowell | 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | M33-New Technology Forum: Cellulosics: Macro to Nano | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Advancements in Nanocellulose Biomaterials – Opportunities for the Plastics Sector Gurminder Minhas, Managing Director, Performance Biofilaments | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Biomass to BioPlus™: Nanocellulose Composites Kim Nelson, VP Nanocellulose Technology, American Process Inc. | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | High Performance Cellulosic Composites Derived From Easily Dispersible Masterbatches Jeffrey Cernohous, President and Founder, Interfacial Consultants | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Advanced Extrusion Technology for Cellulosics Rob Roden, Steer World | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Panel | 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm | M20-Automotive Session: Automotive Plastics Applications | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Advances in Automotive Plastics Applications Development Suresh Shah, Delphi(Rtd) | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | "High Flow Long Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic for Automotive Structural Parts " David Kosse, Global Automotive Program Manager, Celanese | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | THE STUDY OF POLYOLEFIN ELASTOMER EFFECT ON SOILING RESISTANCE Cheol-hee Park, GS Caltex | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Improved Optical Properties of Polycarbonate for Light Guide Applications Matt Orlando, Vice President, Mitsubishi Engineering Plastics America | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | AUTOMOTIVE PROTOTYPE FROM RECYCLED CARBON FIBER REINFORCED RECYCLED POLYAMIDE COMPOSITE Omar Faruk, Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Development of LDS Polycarbonate and Polyamide materials for soldering Matt Orlando, Vice President, Mitsubishi Engineering Plastics America | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | EFFECTS OF GRAPHITE SELECTION ON THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE COMPOUNDS FOR LED LAMP HEAT SINKS Luigi Alzati, Market Leader, IMERYS Graphite & Carbon | 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | M31-Technical Entrepreneur Boot Camp presented by Marketing and Management SIG Bonnie Bachman, Professor and Faculty Fellow, Missouri University of Science and Technology Margaret Baumann, President, G.H. Associates Kelvin Okamoto, President, Green Bottom Line |
| | 8:00 am - 11:00 am | T4-Composites Session: Processing and Materials I-Moderator: Enamul Haque | 8:00 am - 9:00 am | KEYNOTE: Carbon Fiber Sheet Molding Compounds as Materials for the Future Paolo Feraboli | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | VISCOSITY AND SCREW ASSEMBLY EFFECTS ON MECHANICAL PROPERTEIS OF GLASS FIBER REINFORCED NYLON COMPOUNDS Ying Shi, R&D Engineer, A. Schulman Inc | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Novel Liquid-Dispersion Technology for Making Industry Leading Highly Filled, Well-Dispersed Masterbatches Philip Brunner, Interfacial Consultants | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Tensile behaviors of polypropylene single-polymer composites prepared by extrusion-calendering methord Feiyan Song, Graduate Student, Beijing Institute of Technology | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | INTERLAMINAR REINFORCEMENT OF COMPOSTE LAMINATES WITH HEAT ACTIVATED SHRINKING MICROFIBERS Sundong Kim, University of Vermont | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | T13-Polymer Analysis Session | 8:00 am - 9:00 am | INVITED SPEAKER: "Methods and Measurement of Accurate, Quantitative Heat Capacity of Polymeric Materials in a DSC" Louis Waguespack | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Microstructural Analysis of Amorphous and Crystalline PET in Presence of Antiplasticizers Shahab Zekriardehani, University of Toledo | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Confinement Effects on Molecular Orientation in Multilayer Films of Low Molecular Weight Polypropylene Shi Mei nong, Beijing University of Chemical Technology | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Effect Nanoclay Addition On the Compatibility and Diffusion Properties of Commercial Gasoline Through Polymer Membranes James Sloan, Team Leader, Design and Synthesis Team, US Army Research Laboratory | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | ADVANCED DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF A TIRE SAMPLE BY NANOINDENTATION Duanjie Li, Nanovea | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | A Combination of FTIR, MS and NMR Techniques to Characterize an Aqueous Wax Emulsion Praveenkumar Boopalachandran, The Dow Chemical Company | 8:00 am - 11:00 am | T11-Joining of Plastics and Composites Session: Mechanical and Adhesive Joining - Moderator: Sergio Amancio | 8:00 am - 8:15 am | Bio-inspired Textured Composite Surfaces with Increased Hydrophobicity Ali Anwer, University of Toronto | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Bio-Based Construction Adhesives David Grewell, Professor, Iowa State University | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Bonding of Plastic Parts with Dispersion Adhesives Film Formation via Diffusion Processes Matthias Hopp, Scientific Assistant, Kunststofftechnik Paderborn, Paderborn University | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | AN OVERVIEW ON THE MATERIALS AND MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR USED IN FUSED DEPOSITION MODELING Rielson Falck, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | RELAXATION BEHAVIOR OF METAL-PLASTIC-COMBINATIONS MECHANICALLY JOINED BY CLINCHING Eric Brueckner, University of Technology Chemnitz | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Comparing plastic staking technologies Jason Dornbos, Sales Manager and Promotional Marketing Manager, Extol, Inc. | 8:00 am - 12:00 pm | T12-Medical Plastics Session: Technologies for Medical Applications - Moderator: Benjamin Poon | 8:00 am - 9:00 am | INVITED:Additive manufacturing of polymers for medical device applications Roger Narayan, Professor, UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Micro Molding with Bioabsorbables: Not Your Average Thermoplastics Alex Maroon, MTD Micro Molding | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Melt Extrusion and Injection Molding for the Development of Pharmaceutical Mini-Tablets – Case Study Using Clotrimazole Ethan McCarthy, University of Massachusetts Lowell | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Rheological Characterization of Medical Thermoplastic Polyurethanes Ian Pierson, Research Scientist, Abbott | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | The Influence of Plastics Processing on the Biocompatibility of Medical Products Andrea Mueller, Researcher, University of Applied Sciences Schmalkalden | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | INVITED SPEAKER: ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS-DELIVERING CLINICAL UTILITY Lawrence Thatcher, Tesco Associates | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | T6-Engineering Properties and Structure: Olefin Based Polymers-Moderators: Babli Kapur and Rajen Patel | 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Polyproplyene-Rich Blends with Ethylene/a-Olefin Copolymers Compatibilized with INTUNE(TM) Polypropylene-Based Olefin Block Copolymers Jeff Munro, Dow Chemical | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | AGILITY PERFORMANCE LDPE IN BLENDS ELEVATES FILM MECHANICALS AND EXTRUSION OUTPUT TO THE NEXT LEVEL Teresa Karjala, Principal Research Scientist, The Dow Chemical Company | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Crosslinking Polyethylene Resins via E-Beam Irradiation Gerald Billovits, R&D, Dow Chemical | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | EXPLORATION OF ANNEALING EFFECT ON PORE FORMATION OF POLYETHYLENE FILMS Wenyi Huang, The Dow Chemical Company | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | DOWLEXTM GM LLDPE AND AGILITYTM PERFORMANCE LDPE Teresa Karjala, Principal Research Scientist, The Dow Chemical Company | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | THERMAL AGEING PERFORMANCE OF POLYOLEFINS UNDER DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES Huang Wu, Dow Chemical | 8:00 am - 11:00 am | T5-Engineering Properties and Structure: Symposium in Honor of Robert A. Weiss-Moderator: Sadhan Jana | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Revisiting Two Collaborative Research Topics: Polymer Blends and Proton-Exchange Membranes Montgomery Shaw, UConn | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Elucidating Structure-Mechanical Property Relationships In Supramolecular Hydrogels Bryan Vogt, University of Akron | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Open Questions In Glassy Physics: Is There An Ideal Glass Transition And Are Thermosensitve, Soft Colloidal Dispersions Good Models Of Glasses? Gregory McKenna, Texas Tech University | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Ionic Aggregates in Ionomers: Structure and How They Affect Properties of Semi-Crystalline Polymers Brian Grady, OU | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Field Assisted "Z" Orientation Of Nanophases In To Produce Functional Films Using A Novel Roll To Roll Manufacturing Platform Miko Cakmak, Reilly Professor of Materials Engineering & Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Processing Polyethersulfone With Supercritical CO2 And Superheated H2O For Enhanced Processability And Microcellular Foam Structure Alan Lesser, UMass Amherst | 8:00 am - 11:00 am | T3-Bioplastics Session: Bioplastics for Medical and Novel Applications | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | PREPARATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL POLY(?-CAPROLACTONE) POROUS TISSUE ENGINEERING SCAFFOLDS BY A COMBINATION OF MICROCELLULAR INJECTION FOAMING AND POLYMER LEACHING An Huang, University of Wisconsin-Madison | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | INDUCTION OF MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS (MSC) DIFFERENTIATION TO ENDOTHELIAL CELLS VIA SCAFFOLD STIFFNESS MODULATION Yongchao Jiang, Ph.D Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Self-assembled protein-rubber nanocomposites Barbara DeButts, Ph.D Student, Virginia Tech | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Microencapsulation of Pamitic Acid With Polylactic Acid Shell for Thermal Energy Storage Maryam Fashandi, York University | 8:30 am - 10:30 am | T2-Applied Rheology Session: Molecular Rheology-Moderator: Qian Qin | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | ISOTHERMAL CURE RHEOLOGY AND CHEMO-PHYSICAL CORRELATION Xiaoping Guo, Abbott Laboratories | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | CREEP AND RECOVERY OF POLYLACTIC ACID AND ITS CLAY NANO-COMPOSITE Wei Zheng, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Stout | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Characterizing The Flow Of Concentrated Slurries and Polymer Melts Using Percolation Theory Based Functions Greg Campbell, Castle Research Associates | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Rheology of ballistic clay: the effect of temperature and shear history Ran Tao, National Institute of Standards and Technology | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Influence of the chain structure of polymers on their flow behavior Caleb McDonald | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Monitoring Polymer Transitions with a Combined RheoRaman System David Drapcho, Product Manager Research, Thermo Fisher Scientific | 8:00 am - 12:00 pm | T9-Injection Molding Session: Materials-Moderator: Pete Grelle | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Mechanical Properties of Glass Fiber/ Basalt Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene Hybrid Composites Fabricated by the DFFIM Process Yu Li Chao, Kyoto Institute of Technology | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | INVESTIGATION OF THE 2D SHAPE OF CAVERNS IN THE CONTEXT OF ELECTROPLATING QUALITY DEMANDS OF INJECTION MOLDED PARTS USING IMAGE ANALYSIS Jens Peter Siepmann, University of Duisburg-Essen | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | APPLICATION OF TAGUCHI METHOD ON WELDLINE TENSILE STRENGTH OF LONG GLASS FIBER REINFORCED NYLON66 MOLDED PARTS | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Effects of Material and Processing Conditions on the Shrinkage of an Injection Molded Liquid Silicone Rubber Part Ryan Mansfield, UMass-Lowell | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Assessment of the Influence of Moisture Percentage, Melt Temperature, and Residence Time on Material Degradation Eric Bowersox, American Injection Molding Insitute | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Processing of In-Plant Mechanically Recycled PA-12 Tino Meyer, Loughborough University | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | RELATIONSHIP OF SHEAR HISTROY, MORPHOLOGY – MICROSTRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MICRO INJECTION MOLDED PARTS Lixia Wang, Professor, Zhengzhou University | 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | VIBRATION ASSISTED INJECTION MOLDING OF POLY(LACTIC ACID) - THERMAL, SPECTROSCOPIC, AND MECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF HYDROLYTIC DEGRADATION Israd Jaafar, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lehigh University | 8:30 am - 12:00 pm | T10-Injection Molding Session: Emerging Technologies-Moderator: Adam Kramshuster | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF THE INFLATION STEP IN THE TWO-STAGE GITBLOW-PROCESS Denny Scher | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Targeted Process Control for the Enhancement of the Conductive Track Quality with the Integrated Metal/Plastics Injection Molding Philipp Ochotta, Research Assistant, Institut für Kunststoffverarbeitung (IKV) an der RWTH Aachen | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE MOLD FILLING VOLUME FOR BMC INJECTION MOLDING Nicolina Topic, KraussMaffei Technologies GmbH | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | REASEARCH AND APPLICATION OF GAS COUNTER PRESSURE TECHNIQUE TO THE STRENGTH OF CO-INJECTION MOLDING Yan-Mao Huang | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | POLYPROPYLENE MORPHOLOGY IN MICRO-INJECTION MOLDING OF RECTANGULAR GROOVE Sun Kyoung Kim, Professor, SeoulTech | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | The Different Viscosity Arrangement Effects on the Variation of Interface between Skin and Core in Co-injection Molding Chao-Tsai Huang, Assistant Professor, Tamkang University | 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | T16-Vinyl Plastics Session: Environmental Advantages of PVC - Moderator:Emily McBride | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | ELIMINATION OF COPOLYMER IN POLYVINYL CHLORIDE PLASTISOLS USING HIGH-SOLVATING DIBENZOATE PLASTICIZERS Deirdre Newton, R&D Chemist, Emerald Kalama Chemical | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | ELUCIDATING THE CAUSE OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS IN MELT COMPOUNDED PVC PLASTICIZED BY HIGH-SOLVATORS Brad Farrell, R&D, Emerald Kalama Chemical | 10:00 am - 11:00 am | Recycling Progress in the U.S. and Canadian Vinyl Industry Rich Krock, Technical Director, Vinyl Institute | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Update of RVCM Vinyl Chloride Levels in PVC Resins and Products Robert Paradis | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | T15-Thermoplastic Materials and Foams Session: Foaming Fundamentals and Processes-Moderator: Xiaoxi Wang | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | LOW DENSITY OPEN CELL FLEXIBLE FOAMS WITH HIGH TORTUOSITIES AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES HIGHLY DEPENDENT ON THE STRAIN RATE Miguel Ángel Rodríguez-Pérez, University of Valladolid | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Crystallization Studies of Poly (Lactic Acid) during Extrusion Foaming Alireza Tabatabaei, University of Toronto | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | LOW DENSITY HMS POLYPROPYLENE FOAM: CONTROLLING FOAM DENSITY AND CELL MORPHOLOGY Steven Krupinski, Polymer Scientist, Braskem America | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Cell Nucleation in High-pressure Foam Injection Molding of Semicrystalline Polymers Vahid Shaayegan, University of Toronto | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | IN-SITU VISUALIZATION AND CELL GROWTH MODELING IN A POLYMERIC FOAMING PROCESS P. Lee, University of Vermont | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | New Developments in High Energy Electron Beam Induced Long Chain Branched Polyolefins for Low Density, Non-Crosslinked Foams Edward Phillips, Consultant, E-BEAM Services | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Cellular Structures from Anisotropic Semi-Crystalline Polymer Templates Nihal Kanbargi, Graduate Student, UMass Amherst | 8:00 am - 11:00 am | T1-Additive Manufacturing Session: Fused Filament Fabrication(FFF) | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | FILLER CONTENT AND PROPERTIES OF HIGHLY FILLED FILAMENTS FOR FUSED FILAMENT FABRICATION OF MAGNETS Joamin Gonzalez-Gutierrez, Postdoctoral Researcher , Montanuniversitaet Leoben | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Properties of Glass Filled Polypropylene for Fused Filament Fabrication Martin Spoerk, Montanuniversitaet Leoben | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | CREEP DEFORMATION BEHAVIOUR OF PC-ABS PARTS PROCESSED BY FUSED DEPOSITION ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING UNDER DIFFERENT EXTRUSION PARAMETERS Omar Ahmed Mohammed, Ph.D Student, Swinburne University of Technology | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Infill Rate on the Mechanical Properties of Fused Deposition Modelling Polylactic Acid Parts Efe Balta, University of Michigan | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Extrudate Mass Flow Rate Analysis in Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF): A Cursory Investigation of the Effects of Printer Parameters Lukas Duddleston, University of Wisconsin-Madison | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | OPTIMIZING FUSED DEPOSITION MODELING 3D PRINTING PROCESS FOR FRACTURE RESISTANCE Nahal Aliheidari, Ph.D Student, Washington State University | 8:00 am - 10:00 am | T7-Extrusion Session: Single-Screw Extrusion | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | VIRTUAL AND EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT DYNAMIC MIXING DEVICES FOR SINGLE SCREW EXTRUSION Bastian Neubrech, University Duisburg-Essen | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | SCALING LAWS AND FRACTAL SCREW DESIGNS TOWARDS SINGLE PELLET EXTRUSION David Kazmer, Univ. Mass. Lowell | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | ANALYZING THE VISCOUS DISSIPATION OF A TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS IN SINGLE SCREW EXTRUDERS Wolfgang Roland, Johannes Kepler University Linz | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | MITIGATING GELS IN POLYETHYLENE PRODUCTS PRODUCED USING GROOVED-BORE, SINGLE-SCREW EXTRUDERS Mark Spalding, The Dow Chemical Company | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | T8-Extrusion Session: Twin-Screw Extrusion | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Fill ratio distribution in a co-rotating self-wiping twin screw extruder: theoretical and experimental study Kentaro Taki, Kanazawa University | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | EFFECT OF ETHYLENE CONTENT ON MALEIC ANHYDRIDE-GRAFTED POLYPROPYLENE BASED BLOCK COPOLYMERS Wenyi Huang, The Dow Chemical Company | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | FUNDAMENTALS OF TWIN-SCREW COMPOUNDING: KNEADING BLOCK PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS Paul Andersen, Process Engineering Consultant, Coperion Corporation | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Developing a soft sensor Random Forest model for the inline product characterization of Polylactide (PLA) in a twin screw melt extrusion process Konrad Mulrennan, Ph.D Student, Institute of Technology Sligo | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | HIGH SPEED TWIN SCREW EXTRUSION FOR BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER BLENDS: ANALYSIS OF COMPATIBILITY AND RHEOLOGY PREDICTION Barbara Calderon, UML | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Enhanced dispersion of particle additive into polymers by twin screw extrusion with ultrasound assistance Karnik Tarverdi, Professor, Brunel University London | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | MECHANISM OF THE OPERATING CONDITIONS ON DISPERSIVE MIXING AND HUMIDITY OF POLYMER IN A TWIN SCREW EXTRUSION PROCESS Masuma Khatoon Ema, Graduate Student, University of Maryland-College Park | 8:00 am - 11:00 am | T14-Polymer Modifiers and Additives Session: Modifiers-Moderator: Ashok Adur | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Modification of LLDPE by UV-Irradiation Muhammad Umar Farooq, University of Waterloo | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | FABRICATION OF HIGH STRENGTH AND TOUGHENED BIODEGRADABLE ELECTROSPUN FIBERS: POLY(LACTIC ACID)/BIOMAX BLENDS Sheikh Rasel, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ontario Institute of Technology | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Improved Hi-Temperature Molding with Montan Waxes Frank Neuber, Regional Segment Technical Manager , Clariant Plastics and Coatings USA | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Latest developments in TPO stabilization for Automotive applications Emilie Meddah, Technical Marketing Manager, Clariant Plastics & Coatings Inc. | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | ANALYSIS OF SURFACE PROPERTIES OF POLYETHYLENE CAPS AND CLOSURES WITH ERUCAMIDE Nabeen Dulal, Ph.D Student, RMIT University | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | NOVEL INTERFACE-MODIFIED BIONANOCOMPOSITES WITH IMPROVED PROCESSABILITY AND ELECTRICITY Yu Fu, Nanjing Forestry University |
| | 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | T19-Composites Session: Long Fibers-Moderator: Dale Brosius | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Study on the Micro-structures of Long Fiber through Runner and Cavity in Injection Molding for Reinforced Thermoplastics (FRT) Chao-Tsai Huang, Assistant Professor, Tamkang University | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Experimental Study on Fiber Attrition of Long Glass Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastics under Controlled Conditions in a Couette Flow Sebastian Goris, University of Wisconsin-Madison | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | A DIRECT PARTICLE LEVEL SIMULATION COUPLED WITH THE FOLGAR-TUCKER RSC MODEL TO PREDICT FIBER ORIENTATION IN INJECTION MOLDING OF LONG GLASS FIBER REINFORCED THERMOPLASTICS Ian Walter, University of Wisconsin-Madison | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Lightweight Design with Long Fiber Reinforced Thermopalstics - Mechanistic Direct Fiber Simulation for Prediction of Long Fiber Effects during Compression Molding Christoph Kuhn, Volkswagen | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Impact of the Process-Induced Microstrucutre on the Mechanical Performance of Injection-Molded Long Glass Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene Jan Teuwsen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Effects of Extruder Temperature and Screw Speed on Thermal Properties of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polyamide 6 Composites throughout the Direct Long-Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastics Process Takashi Kuboki, University of Western Ontario | 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | T20-Composites Session: Processing and Materials II-Moderator: Ray Boeman | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | KEYNOTE: Multifunctional Energy Storage Composites for Lightweight Transportation Applications Fu-Kuo Chang, Professor, Stanford University | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Injection Molding of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene Composite Foams with Laminate Skins Takashi Kuboki, University of Western Ontario | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE TENSILE PROPERTIES AND FAILURE BEHAVIOR OF GLASS/ POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE (PET) MAT COMPOSITES Zhao Defang, Advanced Fibro-Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Multi-Material Joining for Carbon Fiber Thermoplastic B-Pillar Shridhar Yarlagadda, University of Delaware | 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm | T30-Polymer Analysis Session | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Tutorial Greg Kamykowski, Senior Application Scientist , TA Instruments | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Long-term Property of Thermoplastic Polyolefin Pipe Material Characterized by Cracked Round Bar Test Chunbo Zhang, National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon and Energy | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Steps to Overcome Flow Problems Carrie Hartford, Senior Project Engineer, Jenike & Johanson, Inc. | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Soft PEDOT:PSS aerogel architectures for thermoelectric applications Preston Zhou | 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | T26-Joining of Plastics and Composites- Ultrasonic and Laser Welding of Plastics and Composites - Moderator: David Grewell | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Utilizing Dynamic Hold Capability of Servo-Driven Ultrasonic Welders in Studying Cooling Phase of the Ultrasonic Welding Process Alex Savitski, Dukane Corporation | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | DEVELOPMENT OF AN APPROACH TO DETERMINE MINIMUM AMPLITUDE REQUIRED FOR ULTRASONIC WELDING Miranda Marcus, EWI | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | ULTRASONIC JOINING OF THROUGH-THE-THICKNESS REINFORCED TI-4AL-6V AND POLYETHERIMIDE HYBRID JOINTS Eduardo Etzberger Feistauer, Ph.D Student, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Simulation-Based Investigation of the Temperature Influence during Laser Transmission Welding of Thermoplastics Patrick Lakemeyer, Kunststofftechnik Paderborn, Paderborn University | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | STERILIZATION EFFECTS ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF LASER-WELDED POLYMER SPECIMENS OF POLYPROPYLENE AND POLYCARBONATE Kai Holl, Private | 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | T21-Engineering Properties and Structure: Symposium in Honor of Robert A. Weiss-Moderator: Brian Grady | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Ultrasound Assisted Extrusion Process With Aid Of Ultrasound Avraam Isayev, Distingusihed Professor Emeritus, The University of Akron | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Polymerization Kinetics and Thermodynamics under Nanoconfinement Sindee Simon, Texas Tech University | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Operation Of QCM-D Beyond Common Practice And Experimental Confirmation Of Positive Frequency To Mass Relationship Christopher White, National Institute of Standards and Technology | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Assessing the Orientation Relaxation of Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polymers Below Their Melting Point Using Dynamic Mechanical Analysis Mubashir Ansari, Virginia Tech | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Reversible Shape Memory Polymers Based Semicrystalline Networks Patrick Mather, Bucknell University | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Science and Technology of Open And Closed Cell Polymer Aerogel Foams Sadhan Jana, University of Akron | 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm | T18-Applied Rheology Session: Rheometry and Process Simulation-Moderator: Kurt Koppi | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | THERMOPLASTICS VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT COMBINING Qingping Guo, EHC Canada, Inc. | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | MEASUREMENT AND MODELING OF FLOW BEHAVIOUR FOR MELT BLOWN POLYMER MELT IN VERY WIDE DEFORMATION RATE RANGE Martin Zatloukal, Tomas Bata University in Zlin | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | MEASUREMENT FOR VISCOSITY FUNCTIONS OF PURE AND BLOWING AGENT LADEN POLYMER SYSTEMS USING SCREW RHEOMETER Myung-Ho Kim, Professor, Hannam University / MKE Co. | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Influence of Rheology on Part Dimensions and Production in Injection Molding Jean-Marc Boechat, Deputy Director, HEIA-FR | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND ENERGY ON SLIP OF POLYMER MELTS Marzieh Ebrahimi, Ph.D Student, University of British Columbia | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | APPLIED RHEOLOGY FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOFIBER BASED FILTERS Martin Zatloukal, Tomas Bata University in Zlin | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Capillary Rheometers with Contifeed Tim Haake, GOETTFERT | 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | T24-Injection Molding Session: Processing-Moderator: Lynzie Nebel | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Optimization of the devolatilization process in the injection molding cylinder Yuki Hisakura, Konica Minolta, Inc. | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | EVALUATION OF THE CUSHIONS EFFECT ON PROCESS CONSISTENCY AND REPEATIBILITY Eric Bowersox, American Injection Molding Insitute | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | ONLINE MEASUREMENT OF POLYMER MELT VISCOSITY IN INJECTION MOLDING Ming-Shyan Huang, Professor, National Kaoshiung First University of Science and Technology | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | ONLINE MELT VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT DURING INJECTION MOLDING FOR NEW CONTROL STRATEGIES Torben Fischer, Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV) at RWTH Aachen University | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Advanced Data Acquisition and Analysis for Injection Molders Stefan Kruppa, Development Engineer, KraussMaffei Technologies GmbH | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | To the Measurement and Influences of Process Parameters Variations on the Axial Melt Temperature Profile in the Screw Chamber of an Injection Molding Machine Klaus Straka, Researcher, Johannes Kepler University | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Effect of Polymer Regrind on the Properties of Polypropylene and Polycarbonate Resins Jayda Hepper, North Dakota State University Jesstin Krech, North Dakota State University Clayton Webb, North Dakota State University Reid Williamschen, North Dakota State University | 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm | T25-Injection Molding Session: Microcellular-Moderator: Raymond McKee | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Particle-foam Composite Injection Molding Sven Staperfeld, Research Assistant, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | OPTIMIZING CHEMICAL BLOWING AGENT CONTENT IN FOAM INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS OF POLYPROPYLENE Chul Park, Professor, University of Toronto | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Development of a Three-Stage Process to Achieve Customizable Densities, Microstructures, and Mechanical Properties in Thermoplastic Polyurethane Foams Thomas Ellingham, Ph.D Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS OF POLY(LACTIC ACID) AND PARAFFIN WAX COMPOSITES PREPARED BY CONVENTIOANL MELT COMPOUNDING AND SUB-SUPERCRITICAL GAS-ASSISTED PROCESSING (SGAP) Yann-Jiun Chen, Ph.D Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Effect of Nucleating Agent and Two-Stage Expansion on the Morphology and Mechanical Properties of Microcellular Injection Molded Thermoplastic Polyurethane Thomas Ellingham, Ph.D Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | IMPROVED INJECTION MOLDING OF ULTRA-HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE USING SUPERCRITICAL NITROGEN Galip Yilmaz, Ph.D Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | EFFECTS OF PROCESS PARAMETERS ON CELL MORPHOLOGY OF MICROCELLULAR INJECTION MOLDED PARTS Ming Zhai, Professor, Zhengzhou University | 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | T33-Vinyl Plastics Session - Moderator:Dave Owen | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Sustainability of PVC(Vinyl) Pipe: A Comprehensive Environmental Review Randel Dobbs, Regional Engineer, UNI-BELL PVC Pipe Association | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Sustainability of Plasticizers: How Do You Know? Patrick Harmon, BASF Corporation | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Compounding Challenges for Vinyl Flooring Karsten Kretschmer, Head of Technical Sales, X-Compound GmbH | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Sustainability in PVC Roofing Katie Chapman, LEED Green Associate , JRB Enterprises & Duro-Last Roofing, Inc. | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | ROOFING-ENERGY SAVINGS John Greko | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | VINYL CONTRIBUTES TO THE REDUCTION OF CO2 IN AVIATION Randy Brown | 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm | T32-Thermoplastic Materials and Foams Session: New Foaming Materials and Foams-Moderator: Miguel Rodriguez-Perez | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | FOAMING BEHAVIOR OF THE MULTILAYERED PS/PA6 BLEND AND ITS ANISOTROPIC MECHACICAL PROPERTIES L.F. Feng, Zhejiang University | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN PROCESSING OF POLY(2,6-DIMETHYL-1,4-PHENYLENE OXIDE) (PPO) WITH SUPERHEATED LIQUIDS Alan Lesser, UMass Amherst | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Effect of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes on poly(ε-caprolactone) foaming behavior Tong Liu, South China University of Technology | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | WIDE-RANGE OF MICROCELLULAR BEAD FOAMS FROM DIFFERENT PLA-BASED DROP/SEA BLEND MORPHOLOGIES Mohammadreza Nofar, Assistant Professor, Istanbul Technical University | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | MICROCELLULAR FOAMING BEHAVIOR OF BIODEGRADABLE POLY (3-HYDROXYBUTYRATE-CO-3-HYDROXYVALERATE)/POLYLACTIC ACID COMPOSITES Jiajun Ju, South China University of Technology | 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | T17-Additive Manufacturing Session: Selective Laser Sintering(SLS) | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | FAILURE CRITERION FOR SLS ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED PARTS Martin Launhardt, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | TESTING AND MODELING ANISOTROPIC FAILURE OF POLYMERIC SLS MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES Mark Oliver, Senior Engineer, Veryst Engineering | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Selective Laser Sintering Processing Behavior of Polyamide Powders Raymond Pearson, Lehigh University | 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm | T28-Plastic Pipes and Fittings Session: Durability and Oxidative Stability of Structural and Pressure Piping-Moderator: Vivek Rohatgi | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | A NEW METHOD TO CHARACTERIZE ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS CRACKING RESISTANCE (ESCR) OF POLYETHYLENE (PE) AND ITS PIPES Ben Jar, Professor, University of Alberta | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | A New Test Setup for Testing Polyethylene Tubes under Constant and Cyclic Internal Pressures Siavash Vahidi, Ph.D Student, Drexel University | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Method for Degrading Polyethylene Sheet Samples in an Oxidative Environment Susan Mantell, Professor, University of Minnesota | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | DURABILITY EVALUATION TO RESIDUAL CHLORINE ON PLASTIC PIPES Takehiro Fujii, President, Shinwa Sangyo Co., Ltd | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | ACCELERATED AGING OF POLYETHYLENE PIPE GRADES IN CHLORINE DIOXIDE AND HYPOCHLORITE SOLUTION APPLYING A NEWLY DEVELOPED EXPOSURE DEVICE Márton Bredács, Polymer Competence Center Leoben GmbH | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | ADVANCED APPLICATIONS FOR HDPE PIPE WITH NEW PE-RT MATERIAL Wes Long, Technical Projects Director, Performance Pipe | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | INFLUENCE OF LONG-TERM ANNEALING ON RESIDUAL STRESS DISTRIBUTION AND QUASI-BRITTLE FAILURE PROPERTIES OF TALCUM REINFORCED PIPE GRADE POLYPROYPLENE Florian Arbeiter, Montanuniversitaet Leoben | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm | T22-Extrusion Session: Single-Screw Extrusion Forum-Ask the Experts | 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | What Causes Catastrophic Failures to Extrusion Screws Tim Womer, Consultant and Seminar Instructor, TW Womer and Associates, LLC | 2:20 pm - 2:40 pm | Selecting the Optimum Extruder and Screw Design for Your Application John Christiano | 2:40 pm - 3:00 pm | A fundamental review of screw design for a single screw extruder Kevin Slusarz | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | 10 Key Principles of Extrusion Allan Griff, Consulting Engineer | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Q&A From Audience | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm | T23-Extrusion Session: Twin Screw Extrusion Forum-Ask the Experts | 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Scale up: The Bump in the Road between Development and Commercialization Paul Andersen, Process Engineering Consultant, Coperion Corporation | 2:20 pm - 2:40 pm | Reactive Extrusion With Selective Condensation Kenneth Russell | 2:40 pm - 3:00 pm | Safety Considerations in Compounding Tom Mchouell | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Process Design for the Side Feeding of Sensitive Fillers and Additives Rob Roden, Steer World | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Q&A From Audience | 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm | T27-New Technology Forum: Graphene | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Graphite to Graphene: Challenges and Opportunities in Plastics Prithu Mukhopadhyay, Senior Scientist, IPEX Technologies Inc. Rakesh Gupta, Professor, West Virginia University | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Graphene Polymer Nanocomposites Chrstopher Macosko, Professor, University of Minnesota | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Phase Change and Electromechanical Properties of Two-Dimensional and Few-Layer Materials Evan Reed, Assistant Professor, Stanford University | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Structure-property Relationships of Commercial Graphene Nanocomposites Helen Lentzakis, Application Specialist, NanoXplore | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | EMI shielding and electrically conductive graphene-enhanced plastics Jacques Poulin, Vice President of Sales, NanoXplore | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Panel | 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm | T31-Polymer Modifiers and Additives Session: Additives-Moderator: Hayder Zahalka | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | USE OF DECAHYDRODECABORATE AS FLAME RETARDANTS IN COATINGS Austin Bailey, Graduate Student, Pittsburg State University | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | A COMPOSITION-MORPHOLOGY MAPPING OF PARTICLE-FILLED POLYMER BLENDS UP TO HIGH FILL FRACTION Derrick Amoabeng, Ph.D Student, University of Pittsburgh | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Mechanical, thermal and electrical property enhancement of graphene-polymer nanocomposites Helen Lentzakis, Application Specialist, NanoXplore | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | GRAPHENE-ENHANCED COMMODITY PLASTICS IN REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS Jacques Poulin, Vice President of Sales, NanoXplore | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Synergistic effects of Antioxidants (AO) on Properties of Homo Polypropylene Mazen Ageely | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | TUBALL™ SINGLE WALL CARBON NANOTUBES: A NEW ADDITIVE FOR THERMOPLASTICS Christian Maus, OCSiAl | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | EFFECTS OF SMALL RANGE COLOR (PIGMENT) CONCENTRATION LEVELS IN COMBINATION WITH GAMMA STERILIZATION ON PLASTIC INJECTION MOLDED PARTS Trivikrama Pala, New Jersey Institute of Technology | 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm | T29-Plastics In Building and Construction Session-Moderator: Manoj Nerkar | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Improving the Adhesion of Polyolefin Elastomers Colin Li Pi Shan, Research Fellow, Dow Chemical Company | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | RAPID PHOTO-OXIDATION OF UV-STABILIZED POLYPROPYLENE FIBER DUE TO AN EXTERNAL ANTAGONIST Davis Lee, Exponent Failure Analysis Associates | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | POLYHEDRAL OLIGOMERIC SILESQUIOXANE BASED FLAME RETARDANT FOR ACRYLIC Michael Wells, Director of Research and Development, Reynolds Polymer Technology | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | THERMALLY INSULATED BIMODAL POLYSTYRENE/MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE NANOCOMPOSITE FOAMS Chul Park, Professor, University of Toronto |
| | 8:00 am - 11:00 am | W3-Composites Session: Natural / Bio-Moderator: Christoph Kuhn | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Man-Made Cellulose Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene Characterization ofFracture Toughness and Crack Path Simulation Jan-Christoph Zarges, University Kassel | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | POLYPROPYLENE BIO-COMPOSITES UTILIZING CAMELINA PRESS CAKE Brent Tisserat, USDA-ARS | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Improving the Flame Retardancy of Polypropylene /Rice Husk Composites using Graphane Nanoplatelets and Metal Hydroxide Flame Retardants Shu-Kai Yeh, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | FLEXURAL BEHAVIOR OF NEEDLE PUNCH GLASS/JUTE HYBRID MAT COMPOSITES Zhao Defang, Advanced Fibro-Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Evaluation of the Mechanical and Morphological Characteristics of PLA-Lignin, PLA-Tannin and PLA-CNF Composites Muhammad Anwer, University of Toronto | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | FLAX FIBER-POLYAMIDE 6 COMPOSITES VIA SOLID-STATE SHEAR PULVERIZATION: EXPANDING THE PORTFOLIO OF NATURAL FIBER-REINFORCED THERMOPLASTICS Katsuyuki Wakabayashi, Associate Professor, Bucknell University | 8:00 am - 11:00 am | W4-Composites Session: Composites Innovation-Moderator: Dale Brosius | 8:00 am - 9:00 am | KEYNOTE: A Path for Composites Tom Tsotsis | 9:00 am - 11:00 am | PANEL: Future of Composites - Challenges and Opportunities Dale Brosius Matt Carroll, Engineering Group Manager in Materials for Body Exterior and Electrical , GM Lisa Mueller Ed Pilpel Jeff Sloan Max Thouin Tom Tsotsis | 8:00 am - 12:00 pm | W14-Thermoforming Session | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Plane Strain in Thermoforming Jim Throne, Consultant | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | An Improved Algorithm for Determining Energy Interchange Between Heaters and Sheet in Thermoforming Jim Throne, Consultant | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Processing Thermoformable Low-Density Foam Jim Throne, Consultant | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Parametric Radiant Energy Absorption in Plastics Jim Throne, Consultant | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | The Myth of Radiopacity Jim Throne, Consultant | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | How Important is the Volumetric Absorption Concept? - Part 1 Model Building Jim Throne, Consultant | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | How Important is the Volumetric Absorption Concept? - Part 2 LPM Jim Throne, Consultant | 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | How Important is the Volumetric Absorption Concept? - Part 3 DPM Jim Throne, Consultant | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | W10-Flexible Packaging Session: Defect detection, Sustainability and Emerging technologies | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Innovation in Emerging Areas in Packaging Narayan Ramesh, The Dow Chemical Company | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Revisions to ASTM D7310 Standard Guide for Defect Detection and Rating of Plastic Films Using Optical Sensors Including First Interlaboratory Study Brenda Colegrove, Principal Research Scientist , The Dow Chemical Company | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | A Journey Toward Packaging Sustainability Donna Visioli, DuPont | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | MODELING THE MONOAXIAL STRETCHING OF POLYPROPYLEN FILMS BY A NONLINEAR SPRING DASHPOT MODEL Frauke Reinders, Ph.D Student, Kunststofftechnik Paderborn KTP | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | EFFECT OF COMPOUNDING APPROACHES ON FIBER DISPERSION AND PERFORMANCE OF POLY(LACTIC ACID)/CELLULOSE NANOCRYSTAL COMPOSITE BLOWN FILMS Sonal Karkhanis, Michigan State University | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | COMPUTER AIDED OUTPUT IMPROVMENT OF A HIGH CAPACITY BLOWN FILM EXTRUSION LINE Benedikt Neubert, University of Duisburg-Essen | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Compression molded protein-PVA nanocomposite films Barbara DeButts, Ph.D Student, Virginia Tech | 8:00 am - 11:00 am | W6-Engineering Properties and Structure: Polymer Characterization and Processing-Moderators: John Trent and Paul Hans | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | SENSITIVE MECHANOCHROMISMS BASED ON A POLYMER BILAYER STRUCTURE Luyi Sun, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Scratch Behavior of Multilayered Coatings Mohammad Hossain, Texas A&M University-Kingsville | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | ACCELERATED WOEHLER TESTS AND FATIGUE SIMULATION OF SHORT FIBER REINFORCED THERMOPLASTICS Pascal Brandt, Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV) in Industry and the Skilled Crafts at RWTH Aachen University | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | CHARACTERIZATION OF SCRATCH PROPERTIES OF TALC-FILLED POLYPROPYLENE WITH VARIOUS MELT INDICES Jungsub Lee, Korea University | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC MATCHING EFFECT IN SELF-INDUCED NANOHYBRID SHISH-KEBAB STRUCTURE OF POLY(E-CAPROLACTONE) Xiaofeng Wang, Zhengzhou University | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | MICRO COMPONENTS WITH LOCALLY DIFFERENT PROPERTIES REALIZED BY SEGMENTED TEMPERED INJECTION MOLDING Christopher Fischer, Institute of Polymer Technology (LKT) | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | NONWOVEN FILTERS via A NOVEL, CONTINUOUS MELT COEXTRUSIONPROCESS Deepak Langhe, PolymerPlus LLC | 8:00 am - 11:00 am | W5-Engineering Properties and Structure: Structure and Property of Polymers-Moderators:Sharon Wu and Edwin Yang | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | ENHANCED THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF ULTRA-HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHELENE (UHMWPE) FILMS THROUGH STRAIN-INDUCED FIBRILLATION Yanting Guo, Postdoctoral Fellow, York University | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPONENTS IN RIGID FOAMS Valentina Woodcraft, R&D, The Dow Chemical Company | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Influence of Glass Transition Temperature on Mechanical and Self-Healing Behavior of Polymers Bearing Hindered Urea Bonds Austin Bruce, Rochester Institute of Technology | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Development of High Density Syntactic TPU Foam by Incorporation of Expancel through Extrusion Wanqiao Wang, University of Toronto Mechanical and Industrial Engineering | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | EFFECTS OF SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE PROCESSING ON THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE Ji Eun Lee, York University | 8:00 am - 12:00 pm | W11-Injection Molding Seminar: Simulation/Processing-Moderator: Erik Foltz | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | An approach to improve the prediction of injection molding process using simulation technology Ashwin Kumar R N, Research Engineer , SABIC Research and Technology Pvt. Ltd. | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | ANALYSIS OF HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS AND NO-FLOW TEMPERATURE IN SIMULATION OF INJECTION MOLDING. Juan Fernando Campuzano Vallejo, Assistant in the Technical Division, Institute for the Plastic and Rubber Research and Training | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | EFFECT OF FIBER ORIENTATION AND PROCESS PARAMETERS ON SHRINKAGE IN INJECTION MOLDING OF THIN-WALL PARTS Davide Masato, Ph.D Student, University of Padova | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | PREDICT AND SOLVE STRESS MARK ON PRODUCT’S COSMETIC SURFACE USING CONTROLLED SEQUENTIAL VALVE GATING SIMULATION Edward Wu, CoreTech System Co. Ltd. | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | METHODOLOGY TO IMPROVE INJECTION MOLDING ENERGY PERFORMANCE: SUCCESSFUL CASE STUDIES Ivan Dario Lopez Gomez, ICIPC | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Shrinkage, Warpage and Residual Stresses of Injection Molded Parts Tristan Kolsowski, Research Associate, Institut für Kunststofftechnik, Stuttgart University | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | COMPARISON OF THE PROCESSING PROPERTIES OF THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS AND THERMOPLASTICS USING GAS ASSISTED INJECTION MOLDING Bjoern Landgraeber, Paderborn University | 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | A study on the entrapped air bubble in the plasticizing process Byungohk Rhee, Professor, Ajou University | 8:00 am - 11:00 am | W7-Extrusion Session: Simulation and Modeling | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Elastomer Profile Coextrusion Simulation for Automotive Sealing System Mahesh Gupta, Plastic Flow, LLC | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Simulative evaluation of the temperature influence on different types of pre-distributors in spiral mandrel dies Nafi Yesildag, RWTH Aachen University | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | The 3D Viscoelastic Simulation of Multi-layer Flow inside Film and Sheet Extrusion Dies Kazuya Yokomizo, The Japan Steel Works, LTD. | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Modeling Three-Dimensional Non-Newtonian Flows in Single-Screw Extruders Christian Marschik, Ph.D Student, Johannes Kepler University Linz | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Validation of Residence Stress Distribution approach using 1-D Computer Simulations Nitish Balakrishnan, Graduate Student, University of Maryland, College Park | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF MADDOCK MIXERS FOR SINGLE-SCREW EXTRUSION USING NUMERICAL SIMULATION Xiaofei Sun, Dow Chemical | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | W13-New Technology Forum: 21st Century Productivity Tools-Moderator: Yash Khanna | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Molecular and Mesoscale Modeling & Simulation – What’s in it for you? Lalitha Subramanian, Chief Scientific Officer and VP of Services, Scienomics | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Driving Innovation in Polymer Development Through a Digital Laboratory Nick Reynolds, Principal Application Scientist, Dassault Systèmes BIOVIA | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Realistic Simulation using FEA Tools to Design and Optimize Plastics Arindam Chakraborty, Managing Partner, VIAS | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Impossible Problems Solved: The Quantisweb Approach of Computational Optimization Nina Visconti, Vice President, Strategic Development, Quantisweb Technologies | 10:00 am - 11:00 am | Identifying and Pursuing the Ideal Final Result with TRIZ – plus Chemistry based case studies David Conley, Managing Partner, PQR Group | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Panel Discussion | 8:00 am - 12:00 pm | W1-Advanced Energy and Electrical & Electronic Joint Session-Moderator: Wei Zhao | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | DESIGNING ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS EQUIPMENT FOR THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY BY USING RECYCLED PLASTICS Brian Riise, Director of Research and Development, MBA Polymers Inc. | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | A novel PPESK fibrous membrane separator based on electrospinning technique for lithium-ion battery Wenzheng Gong, Dalian University of Technology | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Cocontinuous Conductive Polymer Composites with Interfacial Graphene Lian Bai, Ph.D Student, University of Minnesota | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | CARBON NANOFIBERS PREPARATION FROM PAN NANOFIBERS BY COTTON CANDY METHOD Akihiro Tada, OHGI Technological Creation Co.,ltd | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | ULTRATHIN NANOLAYER FILMS FOR HIGH ENERGY DENSITY, HIGH TEMPERATURE CAPACITORS Deepak Langhe, PolymerPlus LLC | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | EVALUATION OF RESIN-COATED PROPPANT THROUGH TRI-AXIAL COMPRESSION TEST AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION Jie Feng, Scientist, Dow Chemical Company | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Effect of flow lines on the metallization of laser-structured polymer parts Andreas Johannnes Fischer, Scientific Assistant, University Erlangen-Nuernberg | 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | POLYCARBONATE FILLED WITH HYBRID CONDUCTIVE FILLERS FOR BIPOLAR PLATE APPLICATION Amir Ameli, Assistant Professor, Washington State University | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | W8-Failure Analysis Session: Case Studies and Expert Panel-Moderators: Jennifer Hoffman and Javier Cruz | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | CREEP FAILURE ANALYSIS AND SHELF LIFE DETERMINATION (PREVENTION) PROCESS OF INJECTION MOLDED PARTS EXPOSED TO WITH AND WITH OUT GAMMA STERILIZATION. Trivikrama Pala, New Jersey Institute of Technology | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Preventing Failures in Elastomeric Resistance Bands Dennis Brickman, Prinicpal, ESI | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Failure Analysis and Product Improvement of Medical Device Tubing James Rancourt, Polymer Solutions Incorporated | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Mechanical Characterization and Fractography of PC, ABS and PMMA - A Comparison of Tensile, Impact and ESC Fracture Surfaces Farzana Ansari, Associate, Exponent | 10:00 am - 11:30 am | Failure Analysis Expert Panel Q & A, preceded by presentation of FAPSIG Myer Ezrin Best Paper Award | 8:00 am - 12:00 pm | W15-Alloys and Blends Session: Morphology, Compatibilization and Performance of Polymer Blends-Moderator: Rubinder Kaur Lakhman | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Recyclable crosslinked polymer networks via one-step controlled radical polymerization: Full property recovery after multiple melt-reprocessing steps of models for tire rubber and other polymer networks John Torkelson, Professor, Northwestern University | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | The influence of blend composition on the properties of LDPE-PA6-EVAL-blends Christoph Burgstaller, Managing Director and Head of R&D, Transfercenter für Kunststofftechnik | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | BIMODAL POLY(ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) BLENDS: EFFECT OF MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION ON MATERIAL PROPERTIES Jay Hahan, Niagara Bottling LLC | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | ORIENTATION OF POLY(ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) IN INCOMPATIBLE BLENDS WITH AN ELASTOMER: INFLUENCE OF FUNCTIONALIZATION Violette Bourg, Ph.D, postdoctoral researcher, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal. | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | THE ADHESION OF LSR THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES AFTER STORAGE TESTS Annette Rueppel, Scientific Assistant, University of Kassel | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | MACROMOLECULAR STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIP FOR IMPACT STRENGTH AND HARDNESS OF POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE (PDMS) BLENDS Ahmed Anwer, University of Toronto | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | IMPROVING MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS Jing Shi, Ph.D Student, Georgia Tech | 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | The Composite of High-Density Polyethylene/Polycarbonate Prepared by a New Co-rotating Non-twin Screws Extruder Zhexing Li, South China University of Technology | 8:30 am - 11:00 am | W23-PD3 Session | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | NOVEL PEEK WITH HIGH FLOWABILITY Xiaowei Zhang, Senior Product Development Engineer, Celanese | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Modeling flexible package/granular material interaction through combination of Discrete Element Method (DEM) and Finite Element Method (FEM) Wenbo Xu, Senior Engineer, Dow Chemical Company | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | STRAIN ANALYSIS OF HDPE BUTT FUSION JOINT IN SIDE BEND TEST Xiangli (Shawn) Meng, Mechanical Design Engineer , McElroy Manufacturing, Inc. | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Knowledge-Based Support for the Designer regarding Injection-molded Part Design Rene Andrae, Research Associate, University of Duisburg-Essen | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | UNDERSTANDING DIMENSIONAL VARIATION IN COMMON MECHANICAL PROCESSES, HOW IT DIFFERS IN PLASTIC PARTS, AND MINIMIZING IT Vikram Bhargava, Consultant and Author | 8:00 am - 12:00 pm | W12-Technical Entrepreneur Boot Camp presented by Marketing and Management SIG Bonnie Bachman, Professor and Faculty Fellow, Missouri University of Science and Technology Margaret Baumann, President, G.H. Associates Kelvin Okamoto, President, Green Bottom Line | 8:30 am - 12:00 pm | W9-Fellows Forum | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) – Plastic Products Vikram Bhargava, Consultant and Author | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Mixing with Single Screw Extruders Tim Womer, Consultant and Seminar Instructor, TW Womer and Associates, LLC | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | New Polypropylene Compositions for Automotive & Packaging Markets Raj Krishnaswamy, Fellow and Director of Innovation and Technology , Braskem | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Bio-Based Construction Adhesives David Grewell, Professor, Iowa State University | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Effects of Foaming on the Percolation Threshold of Conductive Polymer Composites Chul Park, Professor, University of Toronto | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Melt Blown Nanofibers for Filter Media Chrstopher Macosko, Professor, University of Minnesota | 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Shape Memory Origami Inspired Mechanical Metamaterials Hani Naguib, Professor, University of Toronto | 8:30 am - 11:30 am | W16-Blow Molding Session | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | METHOD TO EVALUATE BIAXIAL STRETCH RATIOS IN STRETCH BLOW MOLDING Masoud Allahkarami, Postdoctoral Researcher, Oklahoma State University | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Squeeze Performance of Oval Containers Sumit Mukherjee, Director of CAE and Simulation, Plastic Technologies, Inc. | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | EFFECT OF PRE-CROSS-LINKING ON MECHANICAL AND RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLID SILICONE RUBBER AND ITS PROCESSABILITY IN EXTRUSION BLOW MOLDING Sarah Schäfer, RWTH Aachen University | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | MULTILAYER EVOH/HDPE PACKAGING IN PROCESSING AND PERFORMANCE OF RECYCLED HDPE Jon Mitchell, Project Manager, Nextek Ltd | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | PLASTIC PACKAGING RECYCLING USING INTELLIGENT SEPARATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR MATERIALS (PRISM) Edward Kosior, Managing Director, Nextek Ltd | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | MODELLING MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF AMORPHOUS POLY (L-LACTIC ACID) UNDER BIAXIAL STRETCH AT TEMPERATURES ABOVE GLASS TRANSITION Huidong Wei, Ph.D Student, Queen's University Belfast |
| | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm | W17-Composites Session: Potpourri-Moderator: Shankar Srinivasan | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Surface texturing of composite materials by induced damage: surface morphology and friction Reza Rizvi, University of Toledo | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Surface Treatment of Carbon Fiber by Anodic Oxidation and Improvement of ILSS in CFRP Hirofumi Kyutoku, Kyoto Institute of Technology | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | ULTRASONIC METHOD FOR DETERMINING PLY ORIENTATION IN UNIDIRECTIONAL CARBON FIBER COMPOSITES Benjamin Blandford, Baylor University | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | CHARACTERIZATION OF DEVELOPED HYBRID MOLDINGS BY TEXTILE AND SHORT FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITES Hiroyuki Hamada, Asahikasei co | 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | W21-Injection Molding Tutorials-Moderator: Rick Pulielli | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Is quality really worth it? A detailed look at when Quality hits the point of diminishing returns Rick Puglielli | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Injection Window Amos Shavit | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Strategic Mold Sourcing: Helping US Molders Win More Business Mike Curran, Jade Molds | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm | W20-Extrusion Session: Tutorials Shi Mei nong, Beijing University of Chemical Technology | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Extrusion: From the Polymer’s Point of View John Perdikoulias | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | How To Read A Material Data Sheet Allan Griff, Consulting Engineer | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Melt Temperature Measurement in Compounding Kenneth Russell | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Challenges for Extrusion Technology in a Pharmaceutical GMP Environment Colleen Neu, Merck | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | High Performance Devolatilization for Twin-Screw Extruders Rob Roden, Steer World | 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | W22-Non-Halogen Flame Retardant Technologies Session-Moderator: Yash Khanna | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Formulating with Non-Halogen Flame Retardants: An Overview Roger Avakian, Fellow in Corporate Technology, PolyOne | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | New NHFR Additive: FCX-210 Katsuhiro Yamanaka, Senior Scientist, Teijin | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Ionic Liquid Flame Retardants Jeff Xu, Founder, Inovia Materials | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | LSZH Wire and Cable Products: Challenges and Opportunities Ruby Lakhman, Team Lead, General Cable | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Holistic computational structure screening of more than 12,000 solid lithium-ion conductor material candidates for fire suppression in batteries Evan Reed, Assistant Professor, Stanford University | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Panel Discussion |
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