In order to investigate the effects of the drawing conditions (draw ratio and drawing temperatures) on the mechanical properties of hot drawn P. E. T. fiders in water with the different oriented properties of their crystallite, the measurement of stress-strain characteristics for these fibers was made at a constant rate of deformation. In addition, the temperature characteristic of dynamic modulus
E' and loss modulus
E' for these fibers, closely related with thermal molecular motion in the amorphous region, was obtained by mechanical
tanδ meter of the direct reading type over the temperature range between 20°C and 180°C at a constant frequency of 106
c. p. s. The results obtained are as follows:
1) On the stress-strain curves of the drawn at 70°C and non-heated specimens, the flow part of molecular chain becomes longer with lowered draw ratio and the reinforcement effect due to the strain-crystallization begins to occur at higher strain. The lower stretceed and heated fibers with the folded chains crystallite become more brittle. Beyond the yield region, stress for the higher stretched and heated fibers increases in proportion to increased strain, and fibers break down.
2) The stress-strain characteristic of the drawn fibers (draw ratio: 2.0) at various temperatures of drawing bath varies according to the oriented properties of their crystallites, that is, the stress-strain behavior of the stretched fiber at 60°C becomes almost similar to that of the higher stretched at 70°C, and the stretched fibers at 80° or 90°C show same stress-strain behaviors as that of the lower stretched at 70°C.
3) Temperature of the loss perk
αa for lower stretched at 70°C and heated fibers shifts towards higher temperature with increasing draw ratio (107°C→114°C). Relation between temperature of
αa-absorption and draw ratio for the higher stretched fibers at 70°C shows the same tendency to the lower stretched ones (107°C→121°C). Their intensities of maximum absorption of loss modulus
E''
max become higher with increased degree of crystallinity
Xd due to the oriented effects of molecular chain in the amorphous region. There exists a point of the structural transformation in between 2.0 and 2.5 of draw ratio. While the values of
E''
max for the lower stretched fibers do not scarecely change, as the contribution of amorphous birefringence
Δna•(
1-X) for these fibers increase, values of
E''
max for the higher stretched ones become larger with increase of
Δna•(
1-X). The values of dynamic modulus
E'at room temperature for various stretched fibers become higher with increased draw ratio. Beyond transition temperature of α
a-absorption,
E' values at 140°C for the higher (draw ratio: 3.8) and the lower (draw ratio: 1.0) stretched fibers may be about 1/3 and 1/15 of
E' at room temperature respectively.
4) While the values of
E''
max for the stretched fibers with negative birefringence at higher temperature of drawing bath above 70°C become smaller in inverse proportion to the increased degree of crystallinity
Xd,
E''
max value for stretched fiber at 60°C with the fiber-like oriented properties becomes larger. The effects of drawing temperature on the relations of
E''
max Δna•(
1-X) and
E''
max_??_
Δnc•
X become the same in relation between E''
max and
Xd.
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