Plastic Deformation of Crystalline Polymers in Solid-State Extrusion through a Tapered Die

Author(s):  
M. Takayanagi
Author(s):  
Linda C. Sawyer

Recent liquid crystalline polymer (LCP) research has sought to define structure-property relationships of these complex new materials. The two major types of LCPs, thermotropic and lyotropic LCPs, both exhibit effects of process history on the microstructure frozen into the solid state. The high mechanical anisotropy of the molecules favors formation of complex structures. Microscopy has been used to develop an understanding of these microstructures and to describe them in a fundamental structural model. Preparation methods used include microtomy, etching, fracture and sonication for study by optical and electron microscopy techniques, which have been described for polymers. The model accounts for the macrostructures and microstructures observed in highly oriented fibers and films.Rod-like liquid crystalline polymers produce oriented materials because they have extended chain structures in the solid state. These polymers have found application as high modulus fibers and films with unique properties due to the formation of ordered solutions (lyotropic) or melts (thermotropic) which transform easily into highly oriented, extended chain structures in the solid state.


1971 ◽  
Vol 20 (212) ◽  
pp. 606-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiyohisa IMADA ◽  
Tuneo YAMAMOTO ◽  
Kenji KANEKIYO ◽  
Motowo TAKAYANAGI

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. Tkalcec ◽  
G. J. Golabek ◽  
F. E. Brenker

1988 ◽  
Vol 145 ◽  
pp. 261-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Martelli ◽  
G. Mazzone ◽  
S. Scaglione ◽  
M. Vittori

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (15) ◽  
pp. 5684-5691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigeyuki Yamada ◽  
Akira Mitsuda ◽  
Kaoru Adachi ◽  
Mitsuo Hara ◽  
Tsutomu Konno

Light-emitting liquid-crystalline polymers showing PL in the pristine solid state can control their PL color from blue to light-blue via a thermal phase transition to LC phases, which originates from a dynamic change of aggregated structures.


1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (S2) ◽  
pp. 530-531
Author(s):  
R. D. Flores ◽  
L. E. Murr ◽  
E. A. Trillo

Although friction-stir welding has been developing as a viable industrial joining process over the past decade, only little attention has been given to the elucidation of associated microstructures. We have recently produced welds of copper to 6061 aluminum alloy using the technique illustrated in Fig. 1. In this process, a steel tool rod (0.6 cm diameter) or head-pin (HP) traverses the seam of 0.64 cm thick plates of copper butted against 6061-T6 aluminum at a rate (T in Fig. 1) of 1 mm/s; and rotating at a speed (R in Fig. 1) of 650 rpm (Fig. 1). A rather remarkable welding of these two materials results at temperatures measured to be around 400°C for 6061-T6 aluminum welded to itself. Consequently, the metals are stirred into one another by extreme plastic deformation which universally seems to involve dynamic recrystallization in the actual weld zone. There is no melting.


1965 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-117
Author(s):  
Raymond Davies

The recrystallization behavior and deformation of synthetic chalcocite (Cu2S) in the temperature range 400–725 °C was studied microscopically after the compound was annealed in evacuated silica glass capsules and heated under differential pressures in sealed gold capsules. The temperature of recrystallization and grain growth ascribed to the hexagonal cubic inversion, at sulfur vapor pressures much less than 1 atmosphere, was determined at 465 ± 5 °C, with annealing time of [Formula: see text].Experiments involving differential pressures of 8 000 p.s.i. show that chalcocite in the solid state becomes considerably more mobile above 563 ± 10 °C and can readily be injected as a plastic mass to form veins without preservation of deformational textures.Natural bornite and natural galena may also be injected under differential pressure at 640 °C, but some unhealed fractures remain. Flow structure is well-preserved in galena and, under certain conditions, in bornite.Mixtures of bornite and pyrite flowed and recrystallized to chalcopyrite and bornite with exsolved chalcopyrite. No evidence of flowage remained.Chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite are resistant to injection under similar differential pressures and temperatures.


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