Zero-shear first normal stress coefficient

Here are the components of the stress tensor as defined in rheology Tn—T22 is the first normal stress difference and T21 the shear stress, equal to Nt and rxsh, respectively. Hence, from dynamic mechanical measurements it is possible to determine the zero shear first normal stress coefficient Fq0 and zero shear viscosity y0. 

As a result, we find for sols that the divergence of the above zero shear viscosity rj0 and of two other linear viscoelastic material functions, first normal stress coefficient and equilibrium compliance 7°, depends on the divergence... 

We can also calculate other viscoelastic properties in the limit of low shear rate (linear viscoelastic limit) near the LST. The above simple spectrum can be integrated to obtain the zero shear viscosity 0, the first normal stress coefficient if/1 at vanishing shear rate, and the equilibrium compliance J... 

These equations show that both the shear stress and the first normal stress difference gradually increase from zero to a steady state value for —>oo. This results in values for the viscosity and the first normal stress coefficient equal to... 

In Sect. 15.4 it was shown how the shear thinning behaviour of the viscosity could be described empirically with the aid of many suggestions found in literature. It was not mentioned there that the first normal stress coefficient also shows shear thinning behaviour. In this Sect. 15.5 it became clear that also the extensional viscosity is not a constant, but depending on the strain rate upon increasing the strain rate qe the extensional viscosity depart from the Trouton behaviour and increases (called strain hardening) to a maximum value, followed by a decrease to values below the zero extensional viscosity. It has to be emphasised that results in literature may show different behaviour for the extensional behaviour, but in many cases this is due to the limited extensions used,... 

These coefficients, along with the shear viscosity rj = cyii/y, often approach constant values at low shear rates these are called the zero-shear values, rjo, 4>i,o, and 4 2,o- Figure 1-9 shows for a polyethylene melt that the zero-shear constant values of rj r]o and 4 1 — 4/1,0 are approached at low shear rates. For a viscoelastic simple liquid with fading memory, the zero-shear values of the viscosity and first normal stress coefficient are related to the zero-frequency values of the dynamic moduli by... 

Here t, 4, and 4 2 are three important material functions of a nonnewtonian fluid in steady shear flow. Experimentally, the apparent viscosity is the best known material function. There are numerous viscometers that can be used to measure the viscosity for almost all nonnewtonian fluids. Manipulating the measuring conditions allows the viscosity to be measured over the entire shear rate range. Instruments to measure the first normal stress coefficients are commercially available and provide accurate results for polymer melts and concentrated polymer solutions. The available experimental results on polymer melts show that , is positive and that it approaches zero as y approaches zero. Studies related to the second normal stress coefficient 4 reveal that it is much smaller than 4V and, furthermore, 4 2 is negative. For 2.5 percent polyacrylamide in a 50/50 mixture of water and glycerin, -4 2/4 i is reported to be in the range of 0.0001 to 0.1 [7]. 

A review by Bird and Wiest [6] gives a more complete list of existing viscoelastic models. The upper convective model and the White-Metzner model are very similar with the exception that the White-Metzner model incorporates the strain rate effects of the relaxation time and the viscosity. Both models provide a first order approximation to flows, in which shear rate dependence and memory effects are important. However, both models predict zero second normal stress coefficients. The Giesekus model is molecular-based, non-linear in nature and describes thepower law region for viscosity andboth normal stress coefficients. The Phan-Thien Tanner models are based on network theory and give non-linear stresses. Both the Giesekus and Phan-Thien Tanner models have been successfully used to model complex flows. 

A capillary rheometer is a pressure-driven flow, the theme of this chapter, in contrast to the drag flows of Chapter 5. As Hagen first observed, when pressure drives a fluid through a channel, velocity is maximum at the center. The velocity gradient or shear rate and also the shear strain will be maximum at the wall and zero in the center of the flow. Thus all pressure-driven flows are nonhomogeneous. This means that they are only used to measure steady shear functions the viscosity and normal stress coefficients t] y), and Equations 5.1.1-5.1.3 define these functions, and Figure II.3 indicated how they are related to the other material functions. 

We noted in Section 10.7.2 that the second-order fluid approximation for flows only marginally removed from the rest state indicates that the first and second normal stress differences are second order in the shear rate, so that the first and second normal stress coefficients Pj q and T z 0 approach non-zero limiting values at vanishing shear rate. The second-order approximation also predicts that the net stretching stress in uniaxial extension is second order in the Hencky strain rate, and this implies that the extensional viscosity approaches its limiting zero-strain-rate value 3t7o with a non-zero slope ... 

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