Abstract
The rheological properties of glass fibre-filled polypropylene melts have been investigated. A high pressure capillary rheometer has been used for the experimental study. The effect of shear rate, temperature, and fibre concentration on the melt viscosity and viscoelastic properties have been studied. An equation has been proposed to correlate the melt viscosity with shear rate, temperature and fibre content. A master curve relation on this basis has been brought out using the shift factora T .
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Abbreviations
- a T :
-
shift factor (=η/η r )
- A i :
-
coefficients of the polynomical of eq. (1) (i = 0, 1, 2, ⋯,n)
- B :
-
constant in the AFE equation (eq. (2)) (Pa s)
- B′ :
-
constant in eq. (3)
- D :
-
extrudate diameter
- d :
-
capillary diameter
- \(E_{\dot \gamma } \) :
-
activation energy at constant shear rate (kcal/mole)
- E τ :
-
activation energy at constant shear stress (kcal/mole)
- T :
-
melt temperature (K)
- X :
-
fraction glass fibre by weight
- \(\dot \gamma \) :
-
shear rate (s−1)
- η :
-
shear viscosity (Pa s)
- θ :
-
normal stress coefficient\([(\sigma _1 - \sigma _2 )/\dot \gamma ^2 ]\) (Pa s2)
- σ 1 −σ 2 :
-
first normal-stress difference (Pa)
- τ :
-
shear stress (Pa)
- r :
-
at reference temperature
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Nanguneri, S.R., Rao, N.S. & Subramanian, N. Rheological characteristics of glass-fibre-filled polypropylene melts. Rheol Acta 26, 301–307 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01329446
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