Effect of morphology on stress relaxation of polypropylene
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- 1 November 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Polymer Engineering & Science
- Vol. 23 (16) , 883-887
Abstract
Samples of isotactic polypropylene having different morphologies and crystallinities were prepared and subjected to stress‐relaxation experiments at different levels of strain. The relaxation moduli were determined in the range of temperature between – 20 and 40°C over a period of time from 1 to 1000 seconds. Using the time‐temperature superposition principle, the activation energy values of the shift factors aT were determined and the master curves were obtained for the various structures. Increasing crystallinity and/or crystalline aggregate size increases the relaxation modulus of the material and changes both shape and location of the spectrum of relaxation times so that no simple method can be found to correlate the various master curves.Keywords
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