Crystallization Modalities in Polymer Melt Processing: Fundamental Aspects of Structure Formation

✍ Scribed by Hermann Janeschitz-Kriegl (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 227
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The first book to explicitly focus on the processing of crystallizing polymers, it presents innovative research on diverse interfering processes to help clarify the subject. The first to address the unexpectedly strong interaction of three transport phenomena: heat transfer, momentum transfer (rheology) with crystallization kinetics. With many applications, most well-known crystalline structures are found in polymers like high and low density polyethylene, polypropylene, polybutene and their copolymers. Common problems such as anisotropic shrinkage, warping, and split fiber formation are covered. In addition to applications on amorphous polymers, attempts at numerical simulation on crystallizing polymers are also examined. A feeling for the origins of undesired orientations and frozen-in stresses often associated with the manufacturing process is provided to polymer chemists, applied physicists, rheologists, plastics engineers, mold makers and material scientists.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Required Basic Achievements....Pages 1-67
Kinetics and Structure Formation in Unloaded Quiescent Melts....Pages 69-105
Flow Induced Processes Causing Oriented Crystallization....Pages 107-193
Closing Remarks....Pages 195-213
Back Matter....Pages 215-222

✦ Subjects

Polymer Sciences; Industrial and Production Engineering; Crystallography; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials; Materials Science, general