The steady flow shear modulus of polymer melts

1966 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. L. Blyler ◽  
T. W. Huseby
1978 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hüsnü Tözeren ◽  
Richard Skalak

The steady flow of a suspension of closely fitting, neutrally buoyant, incompressible and elastic spheres through a circular cylindrical tube is investigated under the assumption that lubrication theory is valid in the fluid region. A series solution giving the displacement field of an elastic incompressible sphere under axisymmetrically distributed surface tractions is developed. It is found that, for closely fitting particles, flow properties of the suspension are strongly dependent on the shear modulus of the elastic material and the velocity of the particle.


1967 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. W. Huseby ◽  
L. L. Blyler
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The viscoelastic properties of a series of four polyethylacrylates and of four poly- n -butylacrylates have been measured in alternating shear. All measurements were made above the glass transition temperature over the temperature range - 40 to 148 °C and at frequencies of 64 kHz, 15 MHz and 30 MHz. The steady-flow viscosity of each polymer follows a dependence upon temperature according to the equation log 10 ƞ = A + B /( T - T 0 ). The limiting high frequency elastic compliance, J ∞ , is found to be sensibly independent of molecular weight for each series of polymers and varies linearly with temperature. The results obtained are interpreted in terms of additive contributions to the complex shear modulus, G *, comprising: (1) a relaxation process at relatively high frequencies which follows the same form as that observed previously in supercooled non-polymeric liquids according to the model of Barlow, Erginsav & Lamb (1967 b ). (2) a limited summation of relaxation processes at lower frequencies arising from the modes of motion of the flexible polymer chain according to the extension of the Rouse (1953) theory made by Barlow, Harrison & Lamb (1964) for an undiluted polymer having a 'most probable’ distribution of molecular weight. For the polymers investigated the polymer modes (2) contribute a major part of the steady-flow viscosity while the high frequency relaxation process (1) is mainly responsible for the limiting high frequency shear modulus. Agreement is found between experimental results, covering a significant portion of the complete relaxation region, and the calculated behaviour based upon the sum of the above two separate relaxation processes.


2013 ◽  
Vol 110 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas J. Alvarez ◽  
José Manuel Román Marín ◽  
Qian Huang ◽  
Michael Locht Michelsen ◽  
Ole Hassager

1999 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. S86-S86
Author(s):  
R DESIMONE ◽  
G GLOMBITZA ◽  
C VAHL ◽  
H MEINZER ◽  
S HAGL

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