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- Title
Experimental analysis and prediction of viscoelastic creep properties of PP/EVA/LDH nanocomposites using master curves based on time–temperature superposition.
- Authors
Mahdavi, Reza; Goodarzi, Vahabodin; Ali Khonakdar, Hossein; Hassan Jafari, Seyed; Reza Saeb, Mohammad; Shojaei, Shahrokh
- Abstract
ABSTRACT: Prediction of viscoelastic behavior of polymers over a long‐term period is of vital importance for engineering applications. An attempt was made to uncover the interplay between the morphology and viscoelastic behavior of compatibilized polypropylene/ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymer blends in the presence of layered double hydroxide (LDH) nanoplatelets. The time–temperature superposition (TTS) principle and WLF equations were merged to obtain master curves of storage modulus at defined reference temperatures enabling prediction of storage modulus at high frequency ranges which are not experimentally measureable. Moreover, the creep compliance master curves were acquired for different reference temperatures to predict the creep compliance of nanocomposites over long period of times. It was found that the presence of LDH decreases the creep compliance at long period of times while it decreases the unrecoverable deformation of EVA domains. A simple mechanism was proposed to explain the creep and recovery behavior of samples blend at different temperatures. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2018, 135, 46725.
- Subjects
POLYMERS; POLYPROPYLENE; ETHYLENE-vinyl acetate; HYDROXIDES; COPOLYMERS
- Publication
Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2018, Vol 135, Issue 38, p1
- ISSN
0021-8995
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/app.46725