Equation 9 · Part 3 · Materials Discovery and Degradation in Practice: An Advanced Technical Guide

Symbol E_a

AF = \exp\!\left[\frac{E_a}{k_B}\left(\frac{1}{T_{\mathrm{use}}} - \frac{1}{T_{\mathrm{test}}}\right)\right],

E_a

What this part means

the mechanism’s activation energy, $T_{\mathrm{use}}$ .

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$E_a$ occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.

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where $E_a$ is the mechanism’s activation energy, $T_{\mathrm{use}}$ and $T_{\mathrm{test}}$ are absolute temperatures, and $k_B$ is Boltzmann’s constant.

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…or crystallization event — the extrapolated acceleration factor no longer describes what happens at service temperature. A first-order approximation for a single, unchanged mechanism follows $AF = \exp\!\left[\frac{E_a}{k_B}\left(\frac{1}{T_{\mathrm{use}}} - \frac{1}{T_{\mathrm{test}}}\right)\right]$ . where $E_a$ is the mechanism’s activation energy, $T_{\mathrm{use}}$ and $T_{\mathrm{test}}$ are absolute temperatures, and $k_B$ is Boltzmann’s constant. This is a genuine, useful model — it is also only as good as the assumption that $E_a$ and the mechanism are constant over the interval being extrapolated, an…

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