Abstract
The rheological behaviour of miscible blends of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) with poly(styrene- co-acrylonitrile) (PSAN) and with poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF), in the molten state, was investigated. For this study, both steady and oscillatory shear flow measurements were made for PMMA/PVDF and PMMA/PSAN blends, which were prepared by melt blending in a twin-screw compounding machine. The following observations were made from the experimental results obtained: (1) plots of the logarithm of the zero-shear viscosity (log η ob) versus blend composition show positive deviations from linearity for the PMMA/PSAN blend system, but negative deviations from linearity for the corresponding PMMA/PVDF system, under isothermal conditions; (2) plots of log η ob versus blend composition for the PMMA/PVDF blend system show minimum values at certain blend compositions as the viscosity ratio of the constituent components becomes smaller than a certain critical value and; (3) logarithmic plots of the dynamic storage modulus ( G′) versus the dynamic loss modulus ( G″) for all of the blend compositions lie between those obtained for the constituent components in both of the PMMA/PSAN and PMMA/PVDF blend systems. The experimental results are interpreted by using a molecular viscoelasticity theory recently developed by Han and Kim.
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