Abstract
The influence of nonquiescent relaxation of isotactic polypropylene on flow-induced crystallization (FIC) is investigated by a combination of particle tracking velocimeter (PTV) with a cone-plate shearing geometry and synchrotron radiation microbeam wide-angle X-ray diffraction (SR-μWAXD), which is aimed to correlate real flow profile and distribution of crystal orientation. With PTV technique, we observed that flow remains homogeneous during shear, while postshear movement and delayed fracture take place after a step strain when large shear rates and strains were imposed. Delayed fracture slices samples into several layers which move either forward or backward after the cessation of shear imposed externally. SR-μWAXD measurements reveal that the layers moving forward keep high crystal orientations while the layers moving backward show low orientations, which gives an inhomogeneous distribution of crystal orientation across the thickness of sheared samples. The correlation between moving direction and cry...
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