Rheology molecular expression

For correlation with most physical properties (mechanical strength, optical scattering), mass average molecular mass of a polymer Mw" appears more satisfactory. Higher-power averages like z-average molecular mass "Mz" seem to better correlate with rheological properties. Expressions of M , Mw and Mz are... 

The type of chosen polymer and additives most strongly influences the rheological and processing properties of plastisols. Plastisols are normally prepared from emulsion and suspension PVC which differ by their molecular masses (by the Fickentcher constant), dimensions and porosity of particles. Dimensions and shape of particles are important not only due to the well-known properties of dispersed systems (given by the formulas of Einstein, Mooney, Kronecker, etc.), but also due to the fact that these factors (in view of the small viscosity of plasticizer as a composite matrix ) influence strongly the sedimental stability of the system. The joint solution of the equations of sedimentation (precipitation) of particles by the action of gravity and of thermal motion according to Einstein and Smoluchowski leads 37,39) to the expression for the radius of the particles, r, which can not be precipitated in the dispersed system of an ideal plastisol. This expression has the form ... 

In Eqs. (6) and (7) e represents the internal energy per unit mas, q the heat flux vector due to molecular transport, Sh the volumetric heat production rate, ta, the mass fraction of species i, Ji the mass flux vector of species i due to molecular transport, and 5, the net production rate of species i per unit volume. In many chemical engineering applications the viscous dissipation term (—t Vm) appearing in Eq. (6) can safely be neglected. For closure of the above set of equations, an equation of state for the density p and constitutive equations for the viscous stress tensor r, the heat flux vector q, and the mass flux vector 7, are required. In the absence of detailed knowledge on the true rheology of the fluid, Newtonian behavior is often assumed. Thus, for t the following expression is used ... 

Many attempts have been made to predict fracture toughness Kj(V ) of polymers as a function of material structure. Such calculations can start from statistical and molecular points of view, or from rheological points of view . In the context developed above, the fracture toughness may be expressed as a function of Xo in the following way if a simple constant stress model (i.e. the Dugdale model) is assumed along the craze boundary, then the fracture toughness yields ... 

The response (a decrease of viscosity) is a direct consequence of the action of the enzyme on its substrate, since the splitting of the glycosidic bonds gives a decrease in the viscosimetric average molecular weight and hydrodynamic volume of the hyaluronan chains and hence a decrease in the intrinsic and relative viscosities. With this method the rate at different concentrations cannot be compared because the initial viscosities are different and rheological measurements do not coincide. To eliminate these problems, a kinetic dilution methodology for the viscosimetric study of the substrate concentration dependence of the action of hyaluronidase was proposed [135,136]. We were able to determine the rate of reaction, expressed as the number of moles of bonds broken per unit of time, from viscosimetric data [136]. 

The effect of overall molecular weight or the number of blocks on rheological properties for the samples from the second fractionation can be illustrated as a plot of reduced viscosity vs. a function proportional to the principal molecular relaxation time (Figure 2). This function includes the variables of zero shear viscosity, shear rate, y, and absolute temperature, T, in addition to molecular weight, and allows the data to be expressed as a single master curve (10). All but one of the fractions from the copolymer containing 50% polystyrene fall on this... 

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Stress and strain expressed in the tensorial forms, which are essential to the molecular rheological theories and simulations as studied in the later chapters, will be discussed in Chapter 5. For the phenomenological description in the linear region, it is sufficient to discuss the stress-strain relation in terms of scalar quantities. 

An additional approximation that may be made is the systematic omission of higher-order terms in the flux expressions, because of truncations of the Taylor series mentioned in connection with Eqs. (5.10) and (5.20). This implies the assumption that v, and T, and their spatial derivatives, do not change significantly over molecular dimensions. The results in Table 1 are therefore frequently appropriate starting points for the study of the rheology, diffusion, and heat conduction in flexible polymer mixtures, both in solutions and melts. However, for the study of cross effects the first three terms in the Taylor series are needed, as discussed in Sects 14-16. 

The homologous macromolecular blends are simply mixtures of fractions of the same polymer having the same molecular constitutions. On the one hand, any commercial polymer may be treated as a homologous macromolecular blend, and on the other, blending narrow molecular weight distribution fractions provides important information on the rheological behavior of commercial materials. Since the zero-shear viscosity for narrow molecular weight distribution samples can be expressed as... 

It appears, then, that the mechanical degradation process is intimately connected with the molecular structure of the macromolecule and the resulting fluid rheology that arises from this structure. For a flexible coil macromolecule, such as HPAM or polyethylene oxide, the polymer solutions are known to display viscoelastic behaviour (see Chapter 3) and thus a liquid relaxation time, may be defined as the time for the fluid to respond to the changing flow field in the porous medium. It may be computed from several possible models (Rouse, 1953 Warner, 1972 Durst et al, 1982 Haas and Durst, 1982 Bird et al. 1987). The finite extendible non-linear elastic (FENE) (Warner, 1972 Bird et al, 1987a Haas and Durst, 1982 Durst et al, 1982) dumbbell model of the polymer molecule may be used to find the relaxation time, tg, as it is known that this model provides a good description of HPAM flow in porous media (Durst et al, 1982 Haas and Durst, 1982) the expression for fe is ... 

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