The rheology of suspensions of vinylon fibers in polymer liquids. I. Suspensions in silicone oil

Summary The steady shear flow properties of suspensions of vinylon fibers in silicone oil were measured by means of a cone-plate type rheometer. Three kinds of vinylon fibers used had no distributions of length and were more flexible than glass fibers and the like. The content of the fibers ranged from 0 to 7 wt.%. Shear viscosity, the first normal-stress difference, yield stress, and relative viscosity were discussed. Shear viscosity and relative viscosity increased with the fiber concentration and the aspect ratio, and depended upon the shear rate. The applicability of Ziegel's equation of viscosity for fiber suspensions was investigated. The first normal-stress difference increased with the fiber concentration, aspect ratio, and shear rate and its relative increase was much larger than for shear stress and viscosity depending on the properties of the characteristic time, The yield stress could be determined by Casson plots for large aspect ratio fiber suspensions even in low concentration comparing with the suspensions of spherical particles or powder. The influence of the flexibility of the fibers for the rheological properties of the fiber suspensions can not be ignored.With 12 figures and 2 tables     

Unsteady rheometry: can we characterize weak gels with a controlled stress rheometer?

This paper is concerned with the influence of apparatus inertia effects in controlled stress rheometry. As evidenced on creep experiments, the coexistence of apparatus inertia and viscoelasticity leads to a coupling frequency. For weak gels, this coupling frequency is typically between 1 and 100 Hz. Therefore, frequency sweeps around and above this coupling frequency also corresponds to an effective shear stress sweep evolution due to a non-trivial resonant effect. In other words, frequency sweep experiments are not made at constant shear stress. The detailed modelling and analysis of this inertia effect on a typical weak gel shows a clear and fundamental limitation for its characterization using a controlled stress rheometer. Also, alternative approaches to standard rheometer software analysis are proposed to take this coupling effect into account. This paper was presented at the 3rd Annual Rheology Conference, AERC 2006, April 27-29, 2006, Crete, Greece.     

Rheological scaling and modeling of shear-enhanced crystallization rate of polypropylene

Shear-induced isothermal crystallization of a commercial isotactic polypropylene (iPP) has been investigated by using a rotational rheometer at the steady shear rates ranging from 0.00012 s⁻¹ to 1 s⁻¹, and the temperatures from 135 to 145 °C. Two time scales can be utilized to characterize the crystallization rates: one is the level-upturn onset time of the viscosity; another is that of the normal force. Plotting the onset times against the corresponding onset strain, a common critical value for all the undercooling temperatures can be identified, below which the shear flows have no significant effect on the crystallization rates. Furthermore, we propose a concept of dimensionless onset work; this parameter can make the normalized onset times approximately temperature-invariant in the range of our experiment. Our modeling of the quiescent crystallization is based on the nucleation theory of Ziabicki; the results indicate two-dimensional crystallite growth on pre-existing nuclei. The shear enhanced crystallization is modeled by estimating the excess free energy induced by the flow, and using the rheological model recently proposed by Marrucci, in which the required relaxation times are derived from our rheological measurements. The results imply that the crystallization under the present low shear rates is still two-dimensional crystallite growth on pre-existing nuclei, thus supporting the athermal nucleation theory proposed by Janeschitz-Kriegl. Compared with the experimental data, the modeling is only partially successful. Further improvements encompassing the effects of shear flows on the non-linear increase of the number density of athermal nuclei and on the acceleration of polymer chain disentanglement are needed.     

Shear fracture of polystyrene melts and solutions

We find that symptoms of polymer melt fracture, such as a time-dependent decrease in apparent sample modulus and apparent slip, can be induced by oscillatory torsional shearing flow of polystyrene melts and solutions, even when the polymer molecular weight is below the entanglement threshold, and thre strain amplidute is as low as 3%. Visualization of samples during and after fracture show crack and bubble formation, as well as delamination of the polymer from the rheometer tools. For polystyrene melts, the critical stress for fracture is ^* 0.1–1.0 MPa, depending on polymer molecular weight and temperature, and for solutions it is as low as 5 × 10³ Pa. Since constitutive instabilities require the viscoelastic properties to be highly nonlinear, our observations of melt fracture in unentangled polymers at shearing strains well within the linear viscoelastic range rule out this mechanism for some of our experiments, and show that melt fracture is not always caused by constitutive instabilities.     

PCB板折叠形成线模块设计与实验

采用FR-4型PCB板材为传输介质,设计了一种五条线并联的形成线模块。为优化形成线电场分布,绝缘介质层内部嵌有屏蔽电极,分析得到内嵌导体对形成线的特征参量以及传输特性无影响;形成线绝缘介质层厚度为4 mm,耐受电压超过200 kV,根据绝缘寿命公式分析,形成线可以在50～80 kV长时间工作;将PCB板折叠线通过并联以及封装组成形成线模块,外观尺寸为700 mm550 mm40 mm,特征阻抗为5.35 ,通过搭建Blumlein装置进行实验,在充电50 kV条件下,测得输出电压为45 kV,脉冲半高宽140 ns,平顶宽度75 ns,前沿65 ns。     

Molecular origins of nonlinear viscoelasticity

Polymer melts are discussed in terms of relationships between their nonlinear viscoelasticity and molecular structure. The challenges of making nonlinear measurements and the rheometers available for studying nonlinear viscoelasticity are presented. Theories and constitutive models are reviewed and compared with one another and experimental data. Future studies of the molecular origins of nonlinear viscoelasticity are discussed especially in terms of rheometer development and future prospects for nonlinear viscoelastic models.     

不同工作气体对PPAC性能的影响

描述了为RIBLL研制的一种双维位置灵敏PPAC在不同工作气体下的性能测试.位置读出采用电荷分除法.在7mb气压和C₃F₈工作气体时阳极在+595V,对于3组分α粒子,位置分辨为0.64mm.使用异丁烷气体,阳极在+500V,位置分辨为0.76mm.PPAC在两种气体中探测效率均为99.1%.C₃F₈气体质量厚度和能量损失较大,信号幅度较高,适合探测较高能量较轻粒子.异丁烷气体能损较小,适合探测较重粒子.     

乙酸乙酯在D3F阴离子开环聚合中的促进作用

以硅醇钠为引发剂,乙酸乙酯(EA)为极性调节剂,在HAAKE转矩流变仪中合成了聚三氟丙基甲基硅氧烷(PMTFPS),探讨了三氟丙基甲基环三硅氧烷(D3F)聚合过程中EA的促进作用.结果表明,在120℃下,引发剂质量分数为2.74%,EA极性凋节剂浓度为0.30 mol/L,反应4 min时,PMTFPS的数均分子量((...     

测量螺线管磁场的误差与修正

阐述实验验证螺线管磁场分布时理论与实验结果的差异原因及修正方法。     

Transient behavior of Boger fluids under extended shear flow in a cone-and-plate rheometer

Three different dilute solutions of high molecular weight polymers in viscous, binary solvents were used in experiments performed in a cone-and-plate rheometer. The solutions all fall into the class of fluids referred to as Boger fluids and were previously used in studies of viscoelastic Taylor-Couette instabilities. Under prolonged shearing in the cone-and-plate geometry, these fluids all exhibited a decrease of the first normal stress growth function N₁⁺(t) from an initial plateau value to a second, lower plateau value. This behavior has been previously observed, but is here reported for widely used polyisobutylene-based Boger fluids for the first time. As in earlier studies (Magda JJ, Lee C-S, Muller SJ, Larson RG (1993) Macromolecules 26:1696–1706; MacDonald M, Muller SJ (1997) J Rheol Acta 36:97–109), the time at which this decrease occurs (the decay time) is much longer than the polymer molecules relaxation time. Here, we focus on three issues: 1) the time-temperature superposition of the first normal stress growth function N₁⁺(t), including the decay time and the value of the second plateau, 2) the sample recovery time required to reproduce the initial plateau value of N₁⁺ and the decay time, and 3) the relationship between the time scales for this decay of normal stresses and the onset of viscous heating induced instabilities in the Taylor-Couette geometry. Our results suggest that shear-induced conformational changes, possibly coupled to viscous heating of the sample, may be responsible for the decrease in the first normal stress growth function during prolonged shearing.