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:
Extrusion experiments on thirteen polymers in our laboratory and extrusion and forging studies on nine polymers in other laboratories reveal that solid-state extrusion and malleability occur in semi-crystalline polymers that have a crystalline relaxation, αc at the temperature Tαc, and do not occur in semicrystalline polymers devoid of αc. The solid-state extrusion takes place in the temperature range of Tαc ≤ T 〈 Tm with Tm being the melting point. In this temperature, range, the polymeric crystals show a measure of disorder, observed by several techniques and by small heats and entropies of fusion. A survey of the literature indicates that, in general, polymers which have a αc and are solid-state extrudable have shallow and broad bottoms to the energy-wells describing their most stable crystalline conformations, and polymers showing no αc have steep-walled energy-wells for the same conformations.
Additional Material:
3 Tab.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pen.760190615
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