Polyethylene film orientation experiments

The majority of results so far available in this Held have been derived from spectra recorded on dispersive instruments. In order to test tl validity of Eq. (1) several independent experiments have been performed in which a highly oriented polyethylene terephthalate film is subjected stepwise to increasingly higher stresses in the stretching machine illustrated in Fig. 1 and FTIR spectra are taken at the relaxed stress levels with unpolarized radiation. In Fig. 4 the wavenumber shifts of the v(0—CH2) absorption band are plotted as a fimctimi of the applied stress for different experiments. From these systematic investigations, however, no linear relationship between the wavenumber shift Av and the plied stress good index of determination (0.98) was obtained for the power function ... 

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