A thermodynamical framework for the solidification of molten polymers and its application to fiber extrusion
| dc.contributor | Rajagopal, K.R. | |
| dc.creator | Kannan, Krishna | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-12T16:01:49Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-04-07T19:50:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2006-04-12T16:01:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-04-07T19:50:54Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2004-12 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006-04-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A thermodynamical framework is presented that describes the solidification of molten polymers to an amorphous as well as to a semicrystalline solid-like state. This framework fits into a general structure developed for materials undergoing a large class of entropy producing processes. The molten polymers are usually isotropic in nature and certain polymers crystallize, with the exception of largely atactic polymers, which solidify to an amorphous solid, to an anisotropic solid. The symmetry of the crystalline structures in the semicrystalline polymers is dependent upon the thermomechanical process to which the polymer is subjected to. The framework presented takes into account that the natural configurations associated with the polymer melt (associated with the breaking and reforming of the polymer network) and the solid evolve in addition to the evolving material symmetry associated with these natural configurations. The functional form of the various primitives such as how the material stores, dissipates energy and produces entropy are prescribed. Entropy may be produced by a variety of mechanisms such as conduction, dissipation, solidification, rearragement of crystalline structures due to annealing and so forth. The manner in which the natural configurations evolve is dictated by the maximization of the rate of dissipation. Similarly, the crystallization and glass transition kinetics may be obtained by maximization of their corresponding entropy productions. The restrictions placed by the second law of thermodynamics, frame indiference, material symmetry and incompressibility allows for a class of constitutive equations and the maximization of the rate of entropy production is invoked to select a constitutive equation from an allowable class of constitutive equations. Using such an unified thermodynamic approach, the popular crystallization equations such as Avrami equation and its various modifications such as Nakamura and Hillier and Price equations are obtained. The predictions of the model obtained using this framework are compared with the spinline data for amorphous and semicrystalline polymers. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3065 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Texas A&M University | |
| dc.subject | Glass transition | |
| dc.subject | Flow induced crystallization | |
| dc.subject | Solidification | |
| dc.subject | Secondary crystallization | |
| dc.title | A thermodynamical framework for the solidification of molten polymers and its application to fiber extrusion | |
| dc.type | Book | |
| dc.type | Thesis |