Melt flow streamlined shapes

The torpedo is supported by spider legs that have a streamlined shape to achieve smooth flow around the support legs. From the torpedo, the plastic melt... 

There are several process requirements for the preparation of polypropylene staple with permanent three-dimensional helical curvature. Specifically, a rectangular spinneret-pack assembly is used to produce flow perturbation and to impart high internal stress. A specially designed cooling device cools the fiber quickly to form a paracrystalline structure in the fiber. The process principle is that the flow perturbed in the polypropylene melt creates internal stress on one side of the fiber section. Because of the stress memory of polypropylene, the internal stress difference at the interface of streamlined and perturbed flows can sustain in the fiber after it has been cooled and solidified. This leads to different crystal structures and shrink properties, and thus a fiber in the shape of a three-dimensional helix. 

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