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Intrinsic nonlinearity from LAOStrain—experiments on various strain- and stress-controlled rheometers: a quantitative comparison

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Strain-controlled large amplitude oscillatory shear (LAOStrain) experiments on a polyisoprene melt and a polyisobutylene solution were conducted on four different rheometers. The results are compared using nonlinear quantities such as the normalized intensity of the third harmonic (I 3/1) and the intrinsic nonlinearity in order to assess the reproducibility of the experiments. Two of the investigated instruments were strain-controlled rheometers, another two, were advanced stress-controlled rheometers. Since the stress-controlled rheometers are able to conduct strain-controlled tests when employing an active deformation control loop, the two different rheometer types could be compared. Experimental details like the gain of the deformation control loop, and the method of temperature control have been shown to play crucial roles in achieving reasonable reproducibility across the different instruments. Furthermore, deviations from the quadratic scaling of I 3/1 with the strain amplitude and the influence of instrument inertia on nonlinear quantities were observed for one of the stress-controlled instruments. The standard deviation of the intrinsic nonlinearity Q 0(ω 0) at a specific angular frequency as determined by measurements on the same instrument was found to be 8 % or lower. The relative deviations of Q 0 across different instruments were instead up to 12 % in the investigated frequency range with an exception for a specific instrument and one of the samples, where the deviation was considerably larger.

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Acknowledgments

Financial support by the German Research Foundation DFG (SPP 1273, WI 1911/17-1) is gratefully acknowledged. Furthermore, the authors would like to thank Prof. Norbert Willenbacher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology for providing access to the MCR 501 rheometer. The BASF is thanked for the donation of the polyisobutylene solution sample. We also thank Aly Franck (TA Instruments), Jörg Läuger (Anton Paar), and Heiko Stettin (Anton Paar) for their suggestions and improvements of the manuscript. At last, we are grateful to Dr. Jennifer Kübel for proofreading this article as a native speaker.

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Merger, D., Wilhelm, M. Intrinsic nonlinearity from LAOStrain—experiments on various strain- and stress-controlled rheometers: a quantitative comparison. Rheol Acta 53, 621–634 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00397-014-0781-3

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