ISSN:
0032-3888
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Chemical Engineering
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
,
Physics
Notes:
This study summarizes the flow behavior of concentrated and melt systems of linear amorphous polymer. For low molecular weight polymer, viscosity increases regularly with a lower power dependence on molecular weight. This dependence decreases towards first power with increasing temperature but is independent of shear, with viscosities being constant up to the highest attainable steady state stresses, about 106 dynes/cm2. At a higher molecular weight, 2,000-40,000, depending on polymer type, the viscosity dependence on molecular weight changes abruptly to a high power which is generally about 3.4. Above the transition, this high power function is independent of temperature but depends markedly on shear. Non-Newtonian flow sets in abruptly and predictably above the transitional molecular weight.
Additional Material:
1 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pen.760030105
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