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Birefringence and orientation parameters of cold‐drawn viscose fibers
Author(s) -
Fouda I. M.,
Seisa E. A.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.26849
Subject(s) - birefringence , materials science , viscose , dielectric , perpendicular , orientation (vector space) , composite material , refractive index , amorphous solid , optics , optical microscope , work (physics) , geometry , thermodynamics , physics , scanning electron microscope , mathematics , crystallography , chemistry , optoelectronics
This study was carried out by two beam polarizing interference Pluta microscope to obtain changes undrawn viscose fibers. Application of the appropriate mathematical equations indicates that the refractive indices in the direction of the drawing force increase with increasing the draw ratio and decrease in the perpendicular direction. The changes in the draw ratio were evaluated to obtain the shrinkage stress, the mechanical function factors 〈 P 2 (cos θ)〉 and 〈 P 4 (cos θ)〉, the average work per chain W ′ for a collection of chains, and the average mechanical orientation. The optical results were to obtain the three optical orientation functions, the dielectric constant and the dielectric susceptibility and the average orientation function. Also calculation of the intrinsic crystalline $ \Delta n_c^o $ and amorphous $ \Delta n_a^o $ birefringence. Evaluation of another opto‐mechanical parameters were given, too. An empirical formula was suggested to evaluate the relationship between the draw ratio and some determined opto mechanical parameters. Illustrations using microinterferogram, graphs, and tables are given. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 2007