Step planar extension of polymer melts using a lubricated channel |
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Authors: | S A Khan R G Larson |
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Institution: | (1) Bellcore, Red Bank, New Jersey, USA;(2) AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA;(3) Bellcore, 331 Newman Springs Road, P.O. Box 7040, 07701-7040 Red Bank, NJ, USA |
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Abstract: | A technique to do step planar extension on polymer melts has been developed using a rectangular channel with lubricated walls and the linear motor of the Rheometrics System Four rheometer. Using this method we probe the stress relaxation of two polymer melts, a linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) and a highly branched low density polyethylene (IUPAC X), and compare the step planar extensional data to step shear data. Since a step planar deformation is theoretically equivalent to a step shear in a rotating frame of reference, we expect that the nonlinear modulus for step planar extension should be equivalent to that for step shear. Although we find the time dependence of the stress relaxation modulus to be the same in both shear and planar extension, the strain dependence is surprisingly different for the two experiments. |
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Keywords: | Extension step strain polyethylene lubrication |
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