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Effects of strain rate and temperature upon tensile properties of acetal copolymers
β Scribed by K. F. Wissbrun
- Publisher
- Society for Plastic Engineers
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 486 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0032-3888
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
The strength and elongation to break of an acetal copolymer were measured at four elongation rates, from 0.2 to 20 in./min, at temperatures from 239 K to 339 K. Both strength and elongation results could be reduced to master curves by means of timeβtemperature superposition. The temperature dependence of the shift factors was given by an equation of the WLF form, with parameters close to those found for most amorphous polymers, at a reference temperature equal to the Ξ³βtransition temperature of the polymer. Extrapolation to much higher testing rates and to much slower creep rates was satisfactory. Similar but less extensive tests were run on two other samples with different molecular weights. The yield stress was independent of molecular weight, but elongation increased with increasing molecular weight at all conditions.
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