Preliminary study of polymer melt rheological behavior flowing through micro-channels

Author(s):  
S.C. Chen ◽  
R.I. Tsai ◽  
R.D. Chien ◽  
T.K. Lin
Author(s):  
Shia-Chung Chen ◽  
Rean-Der Chien ◽  
Song-Wei Huang ◽  
Chun-Sheng Chen

Micro molding has shown great commercial potential in recent years and determination of the rheological behavior of the polymer melt within micro structured geometry is vital for accurate simulation modeling of micro molding. The lack of commercial equipment is one of main hurdles in the investigation of micro melt rheology. In this study, a melt viscosity measurement system for low and high density polyethylene polymer melt flowing through micro-channels was established using a micro channel mold operated at a mold temperature as high as the melt temperature. For measured pressure drop and volumetric flow rate, capillary flow model was used for the calculation of viscosity utilizing Rabinowitsch correction. The calculated results of low crystallinity LDPE resin were also compared with those of high crystallinity HDPE resin to discuss the effect of degree of crystallinity on the viscosity characteristics of polymer within micro-channels. It was found that the measured LDPE and HDPE viscosity values in the test ranges are significantly lower (about 40∼56% and 22∼29% for LDPE and HDPE, respectively, flowing through a channel size of 150μm) than those obtained with a traditional capillary rheometer. Meanwhile, the percentage reduction in the viscosity value and the ratio of slip velocity relative to mean velocity all increase with decreasing micro-channel size. In the present study we emphasize that the rheological behavior of the high crystallinity HDPE and low crystallinity LDPE resins in microscopic scale are all different from that of macroscopic scale but HDPE displays a less significant lower. The reason can be attributed to for LDPE resin within the micro-channel can create the higher extra bonding force between the bulk chains than HDPE resin. Thus, it will have the lower adhesive force between the bulk chains with the micro-channel wall, resulting in higher degree of wall slip.


2008 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 1891-1898 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Sheng Chen ◽  
Shia-Chung Chen ◽  
Wei-Lianq Liaw ◽  
Rean-Der Chien

2011 ◽  
Vol 189-193 ◽  
pp. 451-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Xu ◽  
Yu Bin Lu ◽  
Guang Ming Li ◽  
Song Xue ◽  
Bei Ping Xiang

With the rapid development of micro injection molding, the determination of melt rheological behavior within micro mold cavity is very important for the accurate simulation modeling. Yet several investigations show the viscosity of melt decreases with the reduction of micro channel characteristic size, but there has been no sufficient experimental data for the conclusion. In this paper, depending on the capillary flow model, the measurement experiments of polymer melt viscosity were investigated when Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA) was extruded through the micro channel dies of 1000μm ,500μm and 350μm diameter. Test results show that, as micro-channel size decreases, the viscosity increases and the difference of viscosities in different micro channels reduces with increasing shear rate. This indicates microscopic scale melt rheological behavior of PMMA is different from that of other materials.


2014 ◽  
Vol 609-610 ◽  
pp. 521-525
Author(s):  
Bin Xu ◽  
Xiao Yu An ◽  
Liang Chao Li ◽  
Guang Ming Li

Viscous dissipation is the key factor impacting flowing characteristics of polymer melt. In order to study the difference between micro scale and macro scale, experimental studies of viscous dissipation at various shear rate were investigated with several polymers, including PMMA and HDPE, at different temperature when melts flow through 1000μm,500μm,350μm diameter channels of identical aspects ratio in the paper. The results indicate that the temperature rises caused by viscous dissipation increase with increasing shear rate and the temperature rise for some shear rate decreases with increasing melts temperature. The temperature rises decrease significantly with the reduction of the characteristic size of micro channel at the same shear rate. However, the average temperature rises per unit length increase when the character size of channel decreases. This indicates the shear friction gradually increases with the decrease of channel characteristic size. Therefore polymer melt viscous dissipation effects of micro scale dimensions are different from that of macro-scale dimensions.


2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 864-869 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shia-Chung Chen ◽  
Won-Hsion Liao ◽  
Jung-Peng Yeh ◽  
Rean-Der Chien

2012 ◽  
Vol 554-556 ◽  
pp. 218-222
Author(s):  
Zhi Hong Guo ◽  
Jia Deng ◽  
Qing Yan Xu ◽  
Qun Shao ◽  
Yan Ping Wang ◽  
...  

Capillary rheometer was used to conduct preliminary study on the rheological behavior of SKYPEL thermoplastic polyester elastomer (TPEE). SKYPEL TPEE is a kind of non-Newtonian fluid and displays typical shear thinning behavior. Non-Newtonian index of the three samples varies from 0.69 to 0.77. With increasing temperature, the structure viscosity of the sample decreased and among them G172D is the smallest one under the same temperature.


2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 1417-1423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Xu ◽  
Minjie Wang ◽  
Tongmin Yu ◽  
Danyang Zhao

2011 ◽  
Vol 314-316 ◽  
pp. 1346-1349
Author(s):  
Bin Xu ◽  
Yu Bin Lu ◽  
Guang Ming Li ◽  
Song Xue

Experimental observations indicate that the viscosity of polymer melt flowing through micro channel is altered with variation of characteristic size of micro channels. The explanation about the trend of various viscosity is inconsistent. In this paper, the micro channel dies of 1000μm ,500μm and 350μm diameter were developed and with several polymers, including PP , PS and HDPE, depending on the capillary flow model, the measurement experiments of polymer melt viscosity were investigated at various shear rate. Test results show that with micro-channel size decrease, the percentage reduction in viscosity increases and the difference of viscosities in different micro channels reduces with increasing shear rate.


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