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Recoil kinetics of uniaxially oriented polystyrene

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Recovery experiments aboveT g have been performed on highly oriented polystyrene sheets obtained from extrusion and subsequent hot drawing. A shift procedure has been applied to recoil data using the WLF equation on two different types of commercial polystyrene. A variableλ defined as the fractional distance from equilibrium is able to reduce all the data obtained on sheets drawn at different draw ratios to a single master curve. The change in molecular weight affects only the value of the glass transition and the relaxation kinetics but has no influence on theC 1 andC 2 constants of the WLF equation. Moreover the molecular orientation does not modify theT g of the drawn polymers.

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Es werden Kriecherholungsversuche oberhalb der GlastemperaturT g an hochorientierten Polystyrolplatten durchgeführt, die durch Extrusion und nachfolgende Heißverstreckung hergestellt worden sind. Die Schrumpfdaten von zwei verschiedenen kommerziellen Polystyrolen werden mittels der WLF-Gleichung übereinander geschoben. Durch eine Variableλ, welche den relativen Abstand von der Gleichgewichtskonfiguration beschreibt, kann man sämtliche verschiedenen Verstreckungsverhältnissen zugeordnete Meßwerte auf einer einzigen Master-Kurve vereinigen. Der Unterschied im Molekulargewicht beeinflußt lediglich die Glastemperatur und die Relaxationsgeschwindigkeit, hat aber keinen Einfluß auf den Wert der KonstantenC 1 undC 2 der WLF-Gleichung. Darüber hinaus wird die Glastemperatur durch die molekulare Orientierung infolge der Verstreckung nicht verändert.

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Apicella, A., Nicodemo, L. & Nicolais, L. Recoil kinetics of uniaxially oriented polystyrene. Rheol Acta 19, 291–298 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01543141

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