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Evaluation of data on the kinetics of isothermal polymer crystallization: Part II
Author(s) -
Lambrigger Markus
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
polymer engineering and science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.503
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1548-2634
pISSN - 0032-3888
DOI - 10.1002/pen.11689
Subject(s) - avrami equation , isothermal process , inflection point , materials science , thermodynamics , scaling , crystallization , work (physics) , kinetics , crystallization of polymers , mathematics , physics , geometry , classical mechanics
The kinetic crystallization model of Avrami is generally accepted as a starting point for the analysis of isothermal polymer crystallization. In a previous communication, the author has shown that data of isothermal crystallization experiments can be evaluated together with the help of Avrami master curves, if the Avrami index n is larger than one. These Avrami master curves have been obtained by scaling the three‐parameter Avrami equation functions θ( t ) with the time‐values of its inflection points. In this work, alternative Avrami master curves will be displayed; they are obtained by scaling θ( t ) with the mean‐time t̄ = ∫ 0 1t d θ. These alternative Avrami master curves can be constructed for every Avrami index n > 0.