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:
Rolling-drawing is a simple, effective, solid state processing technique for manufacturing high strength and high modulus oriented polymer sheet products. The process is capable of increasing the tensile modulus and strength of polypropylene by more, than an order of magnitude with inexpensive equipment and straight forward controllable techniques. This paper gives an overview of the rolling-drawing of polypropylene. It is intended to answer the following questions. What is rolling-drawing? What changes in tensile properties can be expected as a result of this process? What deformation processes occur during rolling-drawing? What are the processing variables and how do these variables relate to the deformation ratio achieved by rolling-drawing? A tensile flow stress relationship was formulated from experimental data for oriented polypropylene. This constitutive equation, estimates the flow stress (or yield stress) of the polymer as a function of deformation ratio, strain rate and temperature. Since stretching was found to provide a significant portion of the deformation during the rolling-drawing process a Hoffman-Sachs computer analysis was written to predict plastic deformation and drawing forces in the stretch zone. The results of experimentation and the analysis are briefly compared in this paper.
Additional Material:
8 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pen.760281908
