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Morphological and mechanical property studies of polymer extrudates obtained by the rotational extrusion process
Author(s) -
Chung B.,
Zachariades A. E.
Publication year - 1989
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.760292104
Subject(s) - extrusion , materials science , plastics extrusion , composite material , die (integrated circuit) , polypropylene , capillary action , glass fiber , superposition principle , extrusion moulding , fiber , modulus , nanotechnology , physics , quantum mechanics
The orientation of the reinforcing fibers in glass fiber filled polypropylene tubular extrudates has been controlled effectively by the superposition of the linear flow in a melt extruder with torsional flow generated by rotating the capillary portion of the extrusion die of the extruder. The so produced extrudates have mechanical properties which can be balanced along the hoop and extrusion direction by adjusting the extrusion rate and the rotational speed of the die for example, the breaking load of 75N along the hoop direction increases by ∼40% when the capillary of the die was rotated at 80 rpm. At the same time the Young's modulus in the extrusion direction decreased from 1100 MPa under conventional extrusion conditions to 800 MPa.