Polymer Engineering and Science, Vol.41, No.7, 1107-1114, 2001
Effect of non-isothermal oriented crystallization an the velocity and elongational viscosity profiles during the melt spinning of high density polyethylene fibers
Based on the experimental data of spine line temperature and percent crystallization, a time-integral constitutive equation has been used together with the degree of phase transformation theory to predict the velocity and elongational viscosity profiles. For the velocity profile, our predicted results are compared to experimental data and good agreement is found. Under a drawing force, the elongational viscosity profile shows a stress softening due to the molecular alignment; then the fiber hardens close to the take-up point, owing to filament crystallization.