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RHEOLOGICA ACTA
Volume 51, Issue 4, Pages 315-327Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00397-011-0605-7
Keywords
Flow-induced crystallization; Extensional flow; High-density polyethylene; Flow-induced crystallization modeling
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada
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The effects of shear, uniaxial extension and temperature on the flow-induced crystallization of two different types of high-density polyethylene (a metallocene and a ZN-HDPE) are examined using rheometry. Shear and uniaxial extension experiments were performed at temperatures below and well above the peak melting point of the polyethylenes in order to characterize their flow-induced crystallization behavior at rates relevant to processing (elongational rates up to 30 s (-aEuro parts per thousand 1) and shear rates 1 to 1,000 s (-aEuro parts per thousand 1) depending on the application). Generally, strain and strain rate found to enhance crystallization in both shear and elongation. In particular, extensional flow was found to be a much stronger stimulus for polymer crystallization compared to shear. At temperatures well above the melting peak point (up to 25A degrees C), polymer crystallized under elongational flow, while there was no sign of crystallization under simple shear. A modified Kolmogorov crystallization model (Kolmogorov, Bull Akad Sci USSR, Class Sci, Math Nat 1:355-359, 1937) proposed by Tanner and Qi (Chem Eng Sci 64:4576-4579, 2009) was used to describe the crystallization kinetics under both shear and elongational flow at different temperatures.
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