The CAMPUS

initiative:

Grade-specific plastics
selection

Mike Ashby and David Cebon, Cambridge, UK, 2007

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 Outline: the CAMPUS database

• Data requirements for material selection

• The need for standardization

• The CAMPUS philosophy

• The Benefits

• The CAMPUS participants

• Demo - CAMPUS data in CES

For more information on CAMPUS, visit www.campusplastics.com

Resources:
• The CES CAMPUS Module in the CES EduPack) software
-- Granta Design, Cambridge (www.grantadesign.com)

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 Data requirements for material selection

• In the world today, there are over 40,000 different plastic grades to
choose from.

• Carrying out a selection necessitates the comparison of many different

resins from many different producers.

• Although data is widely available and easy to obtain, carrying out a

selection can be virtually impossible.

This is due to a lack of reliable, comparable data.

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 The need for standardization

Lack of Uniformity:

Many national standards in use around the world:

ASTM – US BS – Great Britain DIN – Germany

AFNOR – France JIS - Japan

Producers use different standards and report different properties and

units. This prevents comparison.

Supplier A Supplier B
Grade X-1 Datasheet Grade Y-2 Datasheet
Tensile Modulus 380 ksi Tensile Modulus 2600 MPa

Flexural Modulus 370 ksi Flexural Modulus -

HDT @ 264 psi 162 °F HDT @ 0.45 MPa 89 °C

Notched Izod Impact @ 73 °F 8 ft-lb/in Charpy Notched Impact 5 kJ/m2

Strength @ 23 °C

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 The need for standardisation

Test standards:

Test standards are not sufficiently stringent.

Variability in specimen preparation, test methods and test conditions

leads to non-comparable data

Source Specimen Specimen Annealed? HDT @

thickness preparation method 1.8MPa (°C)
(mm)
Supplier A 3.2 Inj Mould No 76
" " Comp Mould Yes 100
Supplier B 12.7 ? No 92
" " ? Yes 100
Supplier C " Inj Mould No 85
" " Inj Mould Yes 93
" " Comp Mould Yes 100

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 The CAMPUS philosophy

CAMPUS = Computer Aided Material Pre-selection by Uniform Standards

The aim of the CAMPUS group, to achieve truly comparable data.

A uniform global standard ensuring:

- Uniform specimen geometry

- Standardized specimen preparation

- Uniform test methods

- Uniform test conditions

- Standard properties profile

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 The CAMPUS philosophy

ISO – The international

organisation for standardization
• CAMPUS adopted three ISO standards:

ISO 10 350 Acquisition and Presentation of comparable

Single-Point-Data
e.g. Tensile Modulus, Volume Resistivity

ISO 11 403–1 Acquisition and Presentation of comparable

ISO 11 403–2 Multi-Point-Data
e.g. Viscosity vs. Shear Rate curves

• All participating producers required to produce CAMPUS data according

to these standards.

• Result - completely standardized test methods and uniform data format

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 The benefits of CAMPUS

• Truly comparable data for use in plastics selection

• Immediate access to over 5600 grades of plastic from more than 30

suppliers

• High quality data for design and CAE calculations

• Eliminates need to learn each producers database and data structure

• Cost savings to both end users and producers due to reduction in the
amount of testing

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 Brief history of CAMPUS

1988 Release of CAMPUS v1.0 database, single point data, jointly developed by
Bayer, BASF, Hoechst (now Ticona), and Hüls (now Degussa)

1990 CAMPUS v2.0, incorporates multi-point data

1993 Dow Chemical and DuPont join CAMPUS Steering Committee

1994 CAMPUS v3.0, integration of CAMPUS ISO standards

1996 Japanese language version of CAMPUS database released

1997 49 CAMPUS participants from Europe, US and Asia

2001 CAMPUS v4.5: TPE and chemical resistance data

2007 CAMPUS v5.1: enhanced compositional data, long-term heat aging

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 CAMPUS Participants

A. Schulman GmbH EMS-Chemie

ALBIS Plastic GmbH Hexion Specialty Chemicals
Arkema Lanxess Deutchland GmbH
BASF Leuna-Miramid GmbH
Bayer MaterialScience AG LG Chemical Ltd.
Bayer Polymers Polimeri Europa SRL
Borealis AG Polyone Engineered Materials Europe
The Dow Chemical Company RadiciPlastics
Degussa AG Rhodia Engineering Plastics
DSM Engineering Plastics Röhm GmbH & Co. KG
Du Pont Engineering Polymers / Americas Solutia Europe SA/NV
Du Pont Engineering Polymers / Europe Solvay
Elastogran GmbH Teijin Chemicals Ltd
Ticona

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