The authors reported in the previous paper that the drawn (draw ratio=4) and heat-treated polypropylene (P. P) filaments show a reversible change of the stress on heating and cooling. In this investigation, stress relaxation and stress recovery of drawn and heat-treated samples, which were kept to the treated length after the treatment and subjected to deformation, were measured at various temperatures and analysed from the viewpoint of the time-temperature and stress-temperature superposision principles. The following results are obtained.
1. Master curves of stress relaxation and recovery, subjected to the deformation from the treated length, can be constructed by shifting curves along the log (time) axis, respectively.
2. Temperature dependence of shift factor (log
aT) can be explained well by the Arrhenius' equation, and when the samples are heat-treated up to 100°C, the activation energy
ΔH is 52.5kcal/mol for stress recovery and 39.2kcal/mol for stress relaxation, respectively, but when the samples are heat-treated up to different temperatures,
ΔH varies.
3. From the temperature and strain dependences of the shift factor (log
aT•r), the following experimental equation is obtained. where
r: strain (%), α: constant,
R: gas constant.
4. The constants
ΔH and α are obtained for the samples heat-treated up to 100°C, 128°C and 140°C (Table 2).
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