Abstract
A rheo-optical experimental apparatus based on Phase Modulated Flow Birefringence (PMFB) method has been developed. This PMFB method is one of the most powerful techniques to study the rheological behaviors of a polymer system.
An useful computer-aided system which has the capability of controlling the flow dynamics, signal detections and data acquisitions for the PMFB method has been developed. Also a newly modified mathematical calculation method to obtain the birefringence with less error propagations has been established. This computerized system for PMFB technique was carefully checked by the quarter wave plate calibration procedure and was proved to be reasonable for obtaining the rheo-optical properties of the polymer liquids.
Also, with the PMFB method, an experiment for investigating the effects of molecular weight on the rheological properties of 1.5 wt% of polystyrene solutions was carried out. The experimental results were in good agreement with the general viscoelastic properties of the polymer solution and with the other experimental results reported so far.
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Abbreviations
- A:
-
Amplitude of time-varying retardance of the Photoelastic Modulator
- C:
-
Stress-optical coefficient
- Irfc:
-
Mean intensity signal
- I:
-
Intensity of the first harmonic component
- hw :
-
Intensity of the second harmonic component
- Ji)(A):
-
Bessel function of the first kind of order 0
- Ji(A):
-
Bessel function of the first kind of order 1
- J:.)(A):
-
Bessel function of the first kind of order 2
- Ri:
-
Ratio signal intensity with first harmonic component
- R2a:
-
Ratio signal intensity with second harmonic component
- d:
-
Optical path length
- An :
-
Birefringence
- S :
-
Retardance of the polymer sample
- Sm :
-
Time-varying retardance of the Photoelastic Modulator
- X :
-
Orientation angle
- k :
-
Wavelength of the light
- o :
-
Stress tensor
- to :
-
Resonance frequency of the PEM
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Park, O.O., Hwang, C.I. & Lim, T.J. Computer-aided phase modulated flow birefringence experiment on polystyrene solutions. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 6, 23–29 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02698107
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