Steady state measurements in stress plateau region of entangled polymer solutions: Controlled-rate and controlled-stress modes

Autor: Sham Ravindranath, Shi-Qing Wang
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Journal of Rheology. 52:957-980
ISSN: 1520-8516
0148-6055
DOI: 10.1122/1.2936869
Popis: Despite decades of efforts, reliable measurements of nonlinear flow behavior of well-entangled polymers in continuous shear have been challenging to obtain. The present work attempts to accomplish three important tasks: (A) overcome this challenge by adopting a strategy of decoupling rheological measurements from the outer meniscus region in a cone-partitioned plate (C/PP) setup; (B) determine whether well-entangled solutions indeed undergo a flow transformation under creep that can be taken to phenomenologically define an entanglement-disentanglement transition (EDT); (C) provide the velocity profiles of such solutions undergoing either controlled-stress or controlled-rate shear by carrying out in situ particle-tracking velocimetric (PTV) measurements. Upon removing any influence of edge fracture and sample loss, we are able to reach steady state during continual shear and elucidate more reliably the nonlinear flow behavior of well entangled polymer solutions with little ambiguity. Three well-entangled s...
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