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1 A R H E O L O G I C A L V I E W P O I N T O F T H E R M O P L A S T I C M E L T S By Dr. Robert Marsh, Bohlin Instruments, 2003 Introduction Rheology is the science of studying the flow and deformation of materials rooted in the laws of elasticity and viscosity proposed by Hooke and Newton in the late 17 th Century. Thermoplastic polymer melts are widely used in many modern industrial processes to manufacture a multitude of objects. Polymers are used because they are relatively cheap to form into complex shapes in the molten state and therefore, we need to understand how they flow when being processed. Polymers are complicated materials to characterise rheologically because there are many factors that influence their flow properties. Examples of factors that influence the flow behaviour may include: Processing temperature; Rate of flow; Residence time etc. Furthermore the rheological properties of polymers are in between those of a liquid and a solid. This leads to time dependence of the flow properties and other important characteristics, some of which are discussed below. Melt viscosity is well known to be critically dependent on temperature. By lowering the temperature of a mould until the part being produced has a matt finish, the processor can learn the minimum temperature (hence maximum resin viscosity) at which the process can be run without surface defects becoming apparent. Reducing the mould temperature saves energy and can reduce cycle times and so an understanding of the temperature dependence of melt viscosity is very useful. Polymer melts are known to exhibit die swell when extruded. This phenomenum reveals itself as an increase of diameter of an extrudate after exiting a die. The amount of die swell is related to the amount of elastic deformation of the material at the inlet of the die. A further fact to be considered is that the degree of die swell (more correctly extrudate swell) is dependent on the length of the die when material is extruded at constant throughput. In other words polymer melts exhibit time dependency as the material forgets the elastic deformation applied at the entrance of the die, the more time the material spends within the die the less die swell. Melt elasticity can also have profound implications for many other polymer processes such as: Blow Moulding where the wall thickness of the blown component depends on the degree of swell that has taken place during the extrusion process prior to the mould being closed. Vacuum Forming or Thermoforming where the polymer must maintain a degree of elasticity to prevent the material sagging before it is pulled by vacuum over the cold forming die. If the material does not have sufficient elasticity it is likely to come into contact with the chilled die before the vacuum or pressure is applied. Polymer processing properties also depend on the concentration of lubricants, plasticisers, fillers and other componenents in the compound being processed. From this brief introduction one can appreciate that proper characterisation of polymer melt flow behaviour is likely to require sophisticated and versatile instrumentation. From the point of view of the rheologist polymer flow behaviour can be conveniently separated into three components: Shear and extensional flows which are characterised by the corresponding viscosities and Elastic behaviour which is characterised by measurement of modulus or swell ratios. To fully characterise a material, instrumentation is required which has the capability of extracting these parameters over a range of temperatures and shear/extension rates.
2 Modern laboratory rheological test apparatus can be divided into two broad categories: Rotational Rheometers Capillary Extrusion Rheometers Rotational Rheometers These instruments normally require a small specimen of the material to be tested in the form of disk typical dimensions being 25mm diameter and 1mm thick. The sample is placed between a pair of parallel plates or upper cone and lower plate whose temperature can be maintained by an external heating device such as a blown gas oven or electrical heating of the plates. Modern rotational rheometers are capable of a number of test types to allow full characterisation of a material over a range of temperarures and flow rates. Examples of the types of the types of tests available are: Flow curves to measure the shear viscosity versus shear rate or shear stress. At sufficiently low shear rates a constant value for the viscosity will be attained. This so called zero shear viscosity has been shown to depend on the average molecular weight of the polymer and the length of the plateau (how high a rate before the viscosity decreases) is known to reflect the width of the molecular weight distibution. Software packages are available to determine the average molecular weight and molecular weight distribution from such data. Creep tests (application of constant stress for a defined period of time) allow an alternative means of determining the zero shear viscosity. When combined with recovery testing (removal of the stress) these tests enable the amount of elasticity in the sample to be measured because a material will with elasticity will recoil and attempt to recover its original shape. Stress Relaxation tests apply an instantaneous deformation (strain) to the sample and record the time dependent decay of stress with time. The rate of decay of the stress depends on the viscoelasticity of the polymer at the test temperature. The data is often displayed as relaxation modulus versus time. Integration of the modulus versus time function is an often forgotten but rapid means of determining the zero shear viscosity and hence average molecular weight. Differentiation of the modulus/time function produces the continuous relaxation time distrubution curve. This rather complex function in principle contains information relating to the molecular weight distribution of the polymer. Small amplitude sinusoidal Oscillatory Testing as function of test frequency is a rapid and often used method to measure the viscous and elastic properties of a polymer simultaneously. Two parameters are most often reported Storage (Elastic) modulus and Viscous (Loss) modulus (G ) which represent the relative degrees of the material to recover (elastic response) or flow (viscous response) respectively as the rate of deformation (test frequency) changes. A typical response for a polymer melt is to exhibit elastic dominated behaviour at high frequencies and viscous dominated behaviour at low frequencies. This means that there is a critical frequency at which the two responses are equal. This is obviously a well-defined point and conveniently this cross-over frequency and modulus has been shown to depend on the molecular weight and molecular weight distribution of some linear polymers. A potential advantage of utilising this point as a quality control tool is that the cross-over of elastic and viscous moduli occurs at significantly higher frequencies than the point at which a constant value of shear viscosity occurs.testing times may therefore be considerably reduced when compared to making flow curve measurements or performing creep tests.
3 Examples of typical responses for these test modes are shown in the following figures. Figure 1 Flow curve for LDPE at 190ºC showing low shear rate plateau for viscosity. The magnitude of the zero shear viscosity is determined by the average molecular weight of the polymer. Figure 2 Creep (Blue) & Recovery (Red) Curve Polypropylene at 190ºC allow zero shaer viscosity to be determined and equilibrium recoverable compliance. Figure 3 Stress Relaxation data LDPE at190ºc The relaxation time distribution curve includes information about the molecular weight distribution of the polymer.
4 Figure 4 Frequency Sweep for Polypropylene at 190ºC. The Cross-Over Point is determined by the average molecular weight and molecular weight distribution. A full discussion of the relationship between molecular parameters and processing performance is beyond the scope of this short article, but the following examples are included to illustrate how visco elastic characterisation of polymers has solved real processing problems: A) Variability of tube and pipe gauges in extrusion processes Oscillatory testing at low frequencies (below 0.1 Hz) revealed differences in the elastic modulus between different batches of material. Clearly pipe gauge will depend on the degree of recovery of the polymer after being extruded and so not surprisingly, the pipes and tubes with the higher gauge have greater elastic modulus Storage Modulus / Pa Thick Thin Freq / rad s -1 Figure 5 Frequency Sweep data for two HDPE pipes. The sample with higher elastic modulus produced the larger gauge pipe. B) Reducing Inconsistent Fibre Spinning Properties Low frequency oscillatory testing was able to show differences in the elastic properties of different batches of material. No differences were observed in the viscosity, indicating the material was of
5 consistent molecular weight. The differences in elasticity at low frequency are related to differences in the molecular weight distribution (MWD) with the result that the broader MWD results in increased molecular chain entanglement which hinders the draw down process of the fibre spinning process. This in turn causes inconsistency in the final product. Complex Viscosity / Pa.s Bad Good log Freq / rad s -1 Figure 6 Complex Viscosity as a function of frequency for good and bad PP Fibre samples. Note that no discernable difference is evident. G' / Pa Bad Sample Good Sample Freq / rad s -1 Figure 7 Storage Modulus as a function of frequency for good and bad PP Fibre samples. The bad sample had more elasticity causing inconsistent fibre diameter.
6 Capillary Extrusion Rheometers Advanced capillary extrusion rheometers comprise a temperature-controlled barrel incorporating one or more precision bores fitted with capillary dies at the exit. Melt pressure transducers are mounted immediately above the dies to record the pressure drop as polymer melt is extruded through the dies at programmed flow rates. By the use of a capillary die and an orifice or zero length die the shear and extensional visscosities of a polymer melt may be determined simultaneously against shear and extension rates. Additional accessories are available to record die swell by means if a laser scanning gauge and or extrudate melt strength by passing the strand of polymer through a series of speed controlled nip rollers and recording the force (melt tension) as a function of haul off speed. As a general rule, capillary rheometers are used to measure melt properties at higher shear rates than rotational rheometers and allow determination of flow behaviour under typical processing conditions. A particularly important consideration is the ability to measure extensional (elongational) properties at higher extension rates than by other techniques (such as counter rotating pulley devices) and more importantly at extension rates encountered on a processing line. The figure below shows both shear and extensional data, which illustrates an important and often neglected point: Two polymers may have almost identical shear flow behaviour, but may exhibit considerbly different extensional properties. As noted previously, many polymer procesess (fibre spinning, blow mouilding) are essentially extensional processes and so determination of extensional viscosity is more important than measuring shear viscosity. 00 Shear viscosity (Pa.s) 0 rubber B 110 C rubber A 110 C 10 0 Shear rate (/s) Figure 8 Shear viscosity versus shear rate. The data for the two rubbers is indistinguishable.
7 Extensional viscosity vs. Extension rate 00 Extensional viscosity (kpa.s) 0 rubber B 110 C rubber A 110 C Extension rate (/s) Figure 9 Extensional viscosity versus extension rate for the same materials shown in figure 8. There are clear differences in the extensional properties of the two materials. Capillary rheometers are often used to examine processing behaviour, rather than determine rheological parameters: Two examples could be determination of regions of flow instability and measurement of wall slip or critical stress. Flow instabilitiy or melt fracture is generally the result of tensile stress when the melt flows from a large cross-section to a smaller one. If the tensile stress becomes large enough, the melt fractures. The effect of melt fracture becomes less noticeable as the length of die is increased and as the die temperature is increased. Increasing die length damps out the effect of the cross-section change at the entrance of the die and increasing temperarure reduces the viscosity and also the stress at the same shear rate. In a capillary rheometer a region of melt fracture is revealed as a regular oscillation of the melt pressure signal as shown below. The melt effectively fractures and then reforms with the effect that adjacent elements have experienced different extensional histories and so will swell differently upon exiting the die /s 25 Pressure (MPa) Time (s) Figure 10 Evidence of Melt Fracture is shown by the oscillating pressure signal. The material is Polypropylene measured at 190ºC.
8 A fundamental assumption when calculating rheological properties with a capillary rheometer is that the material at the wall of the capillary die is stationary this is the so-called stick condition. In practice polymer melts deviate from this situation at a critical stress and the material flows as combination of shear flow superimposed onto a plug flow. Wall slip and determination of the critical stress can be analysed in a capillary rheometer by measurement of flow curves at the same temperature for at least three sets of capillary dies with the same length to diameter ratio. For a material not experiencing wall slip identical shear stress verus shear rate profiles will be generated. In the case of wall slip ocurring, shear stress will decrease as the die diameter increases at constant shear rate. Analysis of the flow data allows the slip velocity and critical stress to be determined. These parameters are often required by computational fluid dynamics software packages along with shear and extensional viscosity data to predict the flow of melts in moulds and extrusion profiles. Unfilled HDPE at 200 C Line of constant Shear Stress 16 x 1 mm Shear Stress (kpa x 0.5 mm 12 x 0.75 mm 8 x 0.5 mm 12 x 0.75 mm 16 x 1 mm Shear Strain Rate (/s) Figure 11 Rheograms for HDPE at 200ºC. The line of constant stress reveals evidence of Wall Slip. 7 Wall Slip Velocity of Unfilled HDPE at 200 C 6 5 Wall Slip Velocity (mm/s Wall Shear Stress (kpa) Figure 12 Slip velocity versus shear rate for HDPE at 200ºC. Slip velocity is calculated by Mooney s method.
9 The two examples above show how a capillary extrusion rheometer may be used to help predict the processing performance of a polymer melt. Other test regimes are also possible: Determination of polymer degradation by multiple flow curve measurments or viscosity versus time; Measurement of critical temperature for flow to commence at constant extrusion pressure; Stress relaxation after flow cessation; Melt compressibility at constant temperature etc. Conclusion Polymer melt rheology is a complex subject that requires careful experiment design in order to obtain the information needed to meet an investigator s requirements. Rotational rheometers are the preferred choice when the requirement is to obtain information concerning the molecular structure and how this affects processing characteristics. In particular, the ability to easily extract information about the average molecular weight and molecular weight distribution via measurment of the viscoelastic properties makes the rotational rheometer a powerful tool. The capillary rheometer extends the shear rate range attainable in the laboratory beyond that available in a rotational instrument and allows the flow properties to be measured under typical processing conditions. In addition, the ability to readily determine both the shear and extensional properties under real life conditions provide the polymer producer and processor with information that is vital to the successful use of a polymer melt. Finally, the capillary rheometer enables processing problems to be investiagated in a controlled environment without the need to stop production on the factory floor.
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