Shear crystal

These researchers (Bolliger, Breitschuh, Stranzinger, Wagner and Windhab 1998) worked with a high shear crystallizer (Figure 22.4) in which the chocolate crystals are scraped from the cooled surface into the bulk to act as nuclei for further crystallization. 

Because only pure phases (in terms of polymers) are required, the liquid demixing was not applied to the separation of HDPE and LDPE. An alternate process of shear crystallization was incorporated. The full scheme of the process by Arlt et shear crystallization process is given in step IV in Figure 4. 

A number of substances such as graphite, talc, and molybdenum disulfide have sheetlike crystal structures, and it might be supposed that the shear strength along such layers would be small and hence the coefficient of friction. It is true... 

Ruths M, Steinberg S and Israelachvili J N 1996 Effects of confinement and shear on the properties of thin films of thermotropic liquid crystal Langmuir M 6637-50... 

Cp is tire number of elasticity active chains per volume unit. The comparison between experimental data and tire prediction by (C2.1.20) shows a reasonable agreement up to large defonnation (figure C2.1.16). For large values of X, strain hardening arises because of tire limited extensibility of tire chains or because of shear-induced crystallization. 

Berrett J F, Molino F, Porte G, Diat O and Lindner P 1996 The shear-induced transition between oriented textures and layer-sliding-mediated flows in a micellar cubic crystal J. Phys. Condens Matters 9513-17... 

Flow processes iaside the spinneret are governed by shear viscosity and shear rate. PET is a non-Newtonian elastic fluid. Spinning filament tension and molecular orientation depend on polymer temperature and viscosity, spinneret capillary diameter and length, spin speed, rate of filament cooling, inertia, and air drag (69,70). These variables combine to attenuate the fiber and orient and sometimes crystallize the molecular chains (71). 

AH distortions of the nematic phase may be decomposed into three basic curvatures of the director, as depicted in Figure 6. Liquid crystals are unusual fluids in that such elastic curvatures may be sustained. Molecules of a tme Hquid would immediately reorient to flow out of an imposed mechanical shear. The force constants characterizing these distortions are very weak, making the material exceedingly sensitive and easy to perturb. 

Because of the rotation of the N—N bond, X-500 is considerably more flexible than the polyamides discussed above. A higher polymer volume fraction is required for an anisotropic phase to appear. In solution, the X-500 polymer is not anisotropic at rest but becomes so when sheared. The characteristic viscosity anomaly which occurs at the onset of Hquid crystal formation appears only at higher shear rates for X-500. The critical volume fraction ( ) shifts to lower polymer concentrations under conditions of greater shear (32). The mechanical orientation that is necessary for Hquid crystal formation must occur during the spinning process which enhances the alignment of the macromolecules. 

The selective redection of chiral nematic Hquid crystals has also been used to develop sensors for pressure, radiation (especially infrared), wind shear over surfaces, stmctural fatigue, and foreign chemical vapor (48). Other types of Hquid crystals have been used to make sensors to measure both electric and magnetic fields. 

Acoustic Wave Sensors. Another emerging physical transduction technique involves the use of acoustic waves to detect the accumulation of species in or on a chemically sensitive film. This technique originated with the use of quartz resonators excited into thickness-shear resonance to monitor vacuum deposition of metals (11). The device is operated in an oscillator configuration. Changes in resonant frequency are simply related to the areal mass density accumulated on the crystal face. These sensors, often referred to as quartz crystal microbalances (QCMs), have been coated with chemically sensitive films to produce gas and vapor detectors (12), and have been operated in solution as Hquid-phase microbalances (13). A dual QCM that has one smooth surface and one textured surface can be used to measure both the density and viscosity of many Hquids in real time (14). 

Flinn et al. [30] describes an experimental impact technique in which <100)-oriented LiF single crystals ( 8 ppm Mg) are loaded in a controlled manner and the multiplication of screw dislocations is measured. The peak shear stress in this relatively soft material is 0.01 GPa. For shear impulses exceeding approximately 40 dyne s/cm, dislocation multiplication is adequately described by the multiple-cross-glide mechanism [(7.24)] with m = l/bL = (2-4) X 10 m, in reasonable agreement with quasi-static measurement [2]. 

Kumar and Clifton [31] have shock loaded <100)-oriented LiF single crystals of high purity. The peak longitudinal stress is approximately 0.3 GPa. Estimates of dislocation velocity are in agreement with those of Flinn et al. [30] when extrapolated to the appropriate shear stress. From measurement of precursor decay, inferred dislocation densities are found to be two to three times larger than the dislocation densities in the recovered samples. 

To answer questions regarding dislocation multiplication in Mg-doped LiF single crystals, Vorthman and Duvall [19] describe soft-recovery experiments on <100)-oriented crystals shock loaded above the critical shear stress necessary for rapid precursor decay. Postshock analysis of the samples indicate that the dislocation density in recovered samples is not significantly greater than the preshock value. The predicted dislocation density (using precursor-decay analysis) is not observed. It is found, however, that the critical shear stress, above which the precursor amplitude decays rapidly, corresponds to the shear stress required to disturb grown-in dislocations which make up subgrain boundaries. 

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