Intermittent shear flow including start-up flow and small oscillatory amplitude time sweep or stress relaxation aftercessation of shear flow was used to study the rheological behavior and internal structure of thermot...Intermittent shear flow including start-up flow and small oscillatory amplitude time sweep or stress relaxation aftercessation of shear flow was used to study the rheological behavior and internal structure of thermotropic liquid crystallinepolymer(TLCP).There are two kinds of intermittent shear flow:all start-up flows are in the same direction(intermittent flowforward:IFF)and start-up flows change their directions alternately(intermittent flow reversal:IFR).The results show thatthe stress of start-up flow of IFF and IFR in the test process is not superposed,indicating different changes of internalstructure of thermotropic LCP(TLCP).Two main factors affect structure changes in the experimental time scale.One relatesto long-term texture relaxation process,the other is an interchain reaction that becomes important after 30 min.The twofactors raise the stress of IFF,but express complex effects for the stress of IFR.The latter factor becomes very important atlong time annealing process.The relaxation behavior was also studied by the application of wide range relaxation spectrumcalculated from the combined dynamic modulus,which gave three characteristic relaxation times(0.3,10 and 600 s)ascribable to the relaxations of less-phase orientation,domain orientation,and domain deformation,respectively.The resultalso shows that the domain coalescence(texture relaxation),a long relaxation time,is a much slow process and lasts beyond2400 s of the test time.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.201740242020400750290090).
文摘Intermittent shear flow including start-up flow and small oscillatory amplitude time sweep or stress relaxation aftercessation of shear flow was used to study the rheological behavior and internal structure of thermotropic liquid crystallinepolymer(TLCP).There are two kinds of intermittent shear flow:all start-up flows are in the same direction(intermittent flowforward:IFF)and start-up flows change their directions alternately(intermittent flow reversal:IFR).The results show thatthe stress of start-up flow of IFF and IFR in the test process is not superposed,indicating different changes of internalstructure of thermotropic LCP(TLCP).Two main factors affect structure changes in the experimental time scale.One relatesto long-term texture relaxation process,the other is an interchain reaction that becomes important after 30 min.The twofactors raise the stress of IFF,but express complex effects for the stress of IFR.The latter factor becomes very important atlong time annealing process.The relaxation behavior was also studied by the application of wide range relaxation spectrumcalculated from the combined dynamic modulus,which gave three characteristic relaxation times(0.3,10 and 600 s)ascribable to the relaxations of less-phase orientation,domain orientation,and domain deformation,respectively.The resultalso shows that the domain coalescence(texture relaxation),a long relaxation time,is a much slow process and lasts beyond2400 s of the test time.
