Using Thermoanalytical Techniques to Characterize Roof Membrane Materials.
Using Thermoanalytical Techniques to Characterize Roof
Membrane Materials.
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Paroli, R. M.; Delgado, A. H.; Rossiter, W. J., Jr.;
Flueler, P.
Challenges of the 21st Century. Roofing Technology,
Fourth (4th) International Symposium. Proceedings.
First (1st) Edition. U.S. National Institute of
Standards and Technology, U.S. National Roofing
Contractors Association, Canadian Roofing Contractors
Association, National Research Council of Canada,
International Waterproofing Association, CIB, RILEM.
September 17-19, 1997, Gaithersburg, MD, 58-65 pp, 1997.
Keywords:
roofs; dynamic mechanical analysis; glass transition
temperature; laboratory aging; outdoor exposure; roof
membrane; thermal analysis; thermogravimetry; torsional
pendulum analysis
Abstract:
Many analytical methods are available within the family
of thermoanalytical techniques for characterizing roof
membrane materials. These techniques include classical
methods, such as differential scanning calorimetry
(DSC), differential thermal analysis (DTA), and
thermogravimetry (TG), and modern methods, such as
thermomechanical analysis (TMA), torison pendulum
analysis (TPA), and dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA).
This paper summarizes the work of the RILEM/CIB Joint
Committee on Membrane Roofing Systems - Thermal Analysis
Task Group on TG and DMA Testing of Roofing Membrane
Materials. The recommendations from the committee on
how TG and DMA can be used to study new and in-service
bituminous-and polymer-based roof membrane materials are
presented.
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899