Melt flow behavior

This same situation exists with plastics. To be successful with plastics requires experience with their melt behavior, melt-flow behavior during processing, and the process controls needed to ensure meeting the dimensions that can be achieved in a complete processing operation. Based on the plastic to be used and the equipment available for processing, certain combinations will make it possible to meet extremely tight tolerances. 

Understanding the melt rheology of rubber nanocomposites is crucial from the processing perspective. Bandyopadhyay et al. [37] have studied the melt flow behavior of rubber-silica hybrid nanocomposites in a capillary rheometer. 

A single screw extruder was used to fabricate the filaments from the composite. The glass transition of the composite was found to be 126°C, which is higher than that of pure ABS material. In addition, the melt flow behavior was extensively studied by setting up a finite element model (79). 

One leading explanation attributes the anomalous melt flow behavior (i.e., flow discontinuity and oscillation) to constitutive instabilities [65]. In other words, the anomalies would be constitutive in nature and non-interfacial in origin. Such an opinion has not only been expressed phenomenologically by Tordella [9b] and many other rheologists but found support from several theoretical studies [65-67]. However, these theories only attempt to describe inherent bulk flow behavior. Thus, a connection between the anomalous flow phenomena and constitutive instabilities was often explored without any account for possible molecular processes in the melt/wall interfacial region. 

Figure 3.1 Non-plastic (Newtonian) and plastic (non-Newtonian) melt flow behavior (courtesy of Plastics FALLO)...

Hydrostatic molding is a suitable alternative to compression molding techniques for the production of plastics that do not have the usual melt flow behavior, such as previously reviewed in the Plastic section for polytetrafluoroethylene. 

Initial target is to simplify and minimize detractors. The major detractor is to understand melt flow behavior within the die and on exidng the die. Being involved with the product designer usually permits concessions to be made resulting in simplifying and reducing their cost (Chapter 5). 

Santamaria and White (24) studied melt flow behavior and splnnablllty of several polyolefin systems including HDPE/LDPE blends. Defining the steady state compliance as ... 

Bastioli C, Belloti V, Rallis A (1994) Microstructure and melt flow behavior of a starch-based polymer. Rheol Acta 33 307-316... 

The addition of lithium salts can alter the melting, flow behavior, and mechanical properties of aliphatic polyamides (1-4). These effects have been attributed to the formation of a labile network resulting from the salt interacting with the amide group of the polymer. Subsequent work using polycaprolactam lithium chloride demonstrated a direct binding of the lithium ions to the carbonyl oxygen (5). 

Figure 15.9. Ultimate elongation and melt flow behavior of reactively compatibilized PPE/PA-6/impact Modifier (50/40/10) blends — Effect of amine terminated PA-6 [Akkapeddi, et al, 1993],...

Some modifications of the melt flow behavior of thermoplastics that can be observed depending on filler concentration are a yield-like behavior (i.e., in these cases, there is no flow until a finite value of the stress is reached), a reduction in die swell, a decrease of the shear rate value where nonlinear flow takes place, and wall slip or nearwall slip flow behavior [14, 27, 46]. Other reported effects of flllers on the rheology of molten polymers are an increase of both the shear thinning behavior and the zero-shear-rate viscosity with the filler loading and a decrease in the dependence of the filler on viscosity near the glass transition temperature [18, 47-49]. 

Samakande A, Sanderson RD, Hartmann PC (2009) Rheological properties of RAFT-mediated poly(styrene-co-butyl acrylate)-clay nanocomposites [P(S-co-BA)-PCNs] emphasis on the effect of structural parameters on thermo-mechanical and melt flow behaviors. 

Coatings with Thermoplastic Fluoropolymers. Poly(vinylidene fluoride), PVDF, is the only conventional thermoplastic fluoropolymer that is used as a commercial product for weather-resistant paints. This crystalline polymer is composed of -CHjCFj- repeating units it is soluble in highly polar solvents such as dimethyl-formamide or dimethylacetamide. Poly(vinylidene fluoride) is usually blended with 20 30 wt% of an acrylic resin such as poly(methyl methacrylate) to improve melt flow behavior at the baking temperature and substrate adhesion. The blended polymer is dispersed in a latent solvent (e.g., isophorone, propylene carbonate, dimethyl phthalate). The dispersion is applied to a substrate and baked at ca. 300 °C for ca. 40-70 s. The weather resistance of the paints exceeds 20 years [2.16]-[2.18]. 

This practical and comprehensive book reviews the plastics industry virtually from A to Z through its more than 25,000 entries. Its concise entries cover the basic issues (such as plastic s melt flow behavior during processing) as well as advanced issues (such as the design and fabrication of products that are targeted to meet performance and cost requirements with zero defects). 

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