Suspension-like hardening behavior of HDPE and time-hardening superposition
- Roozemond, Peter C
- Janssens, Vincent
- Van Puyvelde, Peter
- Peters, Gerrit WM
DOIAbstract
The rheology of solidifying high-density polyethylene (HDPE) is investigated. Experiments on an HDPE were performed with a novel RheoDSC device. Results agree quantitatively with simulations for a suspension of elastic spheres in a viscoelastic matrix except for very low values of space filling (<5%), indicating that the rheological behavior of the crystallizing melt in the frequency range investigated is purely suspension like. The hardening behavior of the material is characterized in two different ways; a normalized rheological function and a time-hardening superposition (THS) master curve of rheological properties. An improvement is proposed to the procedure for performing THS that was previously used in the literature. Based on this pr...
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