• Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.63-69
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• 2005

The stability of low-speed spinning process exhibiting spinline flow-induced crystallization (FIC) with no neck-like spinline deformation has been investigated using the method of linear stability analysis. Effects of various process conditions such as fluid viscoelasticity and the spinline cooling on the spinning stability have been found closely related to the development of the spinline crystallinity. It also has been found that the FIC makes the system less stable or more unstable than no FIC cases when the spinline crystallinity reaches its maximum possible value, whereas the FIC generally stabilizes the system if the crystallinity doesn't reach its maximum value on the spinline. It is believed that the destabilizing effect of the FIC on low-speed spinning when the crystallinity is fully developed on the spinline is due to the reduction of the real spinning length available for deformation on the spinline. On the other hand, the increased spinline tension caused by the FIC when the maximum crystallinity is not reached on the spinline and thus no reduction in the spinning length occurs, makes the sensitivity of spinline variables to external disturbances smaller and hence stabilizes the system. These linear stability results are consistent with the findings by nonlinear transient simulation, as first reported by Lee et al. (2005b).

• Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.119-124
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• 2000

Employing the Phan-Thien tanner (PTT) fluids model, dynamic behavior of the non-isothermal melt spinning has been investigated. Subjects such as draw resonance instability, the effects of spinline cooling and of the fluid viscoelasticity on the spinning dynamics have been studied using the governing equations of the system. In particular, the draw resonance criterion based on the traveling times of various kinematic waves in the spinline has been confirmed, the reason why the spinline cooling is stabilizing is analyzed, and the effect of fluid viscoelasticity on the spinline stability is summarized. It is believed that the same method as in this study can be applied with equal ease to other extension deformation processes like film casting and film blowing.

• Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.57-62
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• 2002

The sensitivity of the final filament to the ongoing sinusoidal disturbances has been Investigated in the viscoelastic spinning using frequency response method. Amplification ratios or gains of the spinline cross-sectional area at the take-up to any disturbances show resonant peaks along the frequency regime, where the frequencies at theme points directly correspond to the imaginary parts of the successive leading eigenvalues from the linear stability analysis. As shown in Jung et al. (1999) and Lee et al (2001), the sensitivity results on the effect of various process conditions such as spinline cooling and fluid viscoelasticity, obtained by dynamic transient simulation have been corroborated in this study. That is, increasing spinline cooling makes the system less sensitive to disturbances, thus stabilizes the spinning. Also, an increasing viscoelasticity for extension-thickening fluids decreases the sensitivity of the spinning. i.e., stabilizing the system, where, as it increases the sensitivity of the spinning of extension-thinning fluids. Furthermore, it has been found in the present study that the inertia force as one of secondary forces causes the system to be more stabile or less sensitive to process disturbances.

• Proceedings of the Korean Fiber Society Conference
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• 1995.04a
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• pp.26-26
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• 1995

• Proceedings of the Korean Fiber Society Conference
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.61-62
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• 1995

• Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.279-285
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• 1999

Draw resonance is both an important and interesting instability encountered in various extensional-deformation-dominated polymer processing operations. It is important because of its paramount relevance to the productivity and quality issue in the related industry: and it is interesting because of as yet unanswered questions as to what its cause and origin are in terms of physics involved. Specifically, a short chronological account of the draw resonance research is presented in this paper bringing several previous results together and focusing on the derivation of a new criterion for draw resonance based on the interaction of the traveling times of some kinematic waves propagating along the spinline from the die exit to the take-up position. The new explanation of draw resonance put forward here based on the physics of the system is seen to have wide implications on both theoretical and practical aspects of draw resonance instability. The importance of the role played by spinline tension in determining draw resonance is an example of the former whereas interpretation of the mechanism of the draw resonance eliminator is an example of the latter. Finally, an approximate yet a very fast and convenient method for determining draw resonance is also derived based on the above findings and found to agree well with the exact stability results.

• The Korean Journal of Rheology
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.111-117
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• 1997

대표적인 신장유동의 하나인 방사공정을 통해 액정고분자를 포함한 블렌드 섬유의 신장유동의 특성과 형구학적 성질간의 관계를 고찰하였다. 신장유동에 의해 분산상인 액정 고분자는 미세섬유구조를 바뀌었고 압출온도가 높을수록 더욱 발달된 미세섬유구조를 가졌 다. 이러한 분산상의 미세구조 변화에 대한 설명은 블렌드의 신장유동특성을 나타내는 신장 점도비로서 가능하였다. 즉, 압출온도가 높을수록 방사사선에서 신장변형률속도가 z지고 신 장점도비가 작아지므로 분산상의 신장변형이 더 많이 되었다고 판단된다. 방사이전의블렌드 내의 분산상은 압출온도를달리하여도 모두 구형으로 존재함을 발견하였고 이사실로부터 분 산상의 미세섬유구조는 방사사선에서의 신장변형에 의해 주로 이루어졌음을 확인하였다.

• The Korean Journal of Rheology
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.148-160
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• 1992

폴리프로필렌(PP)과 폴리에틸렌(PE)혼합물의 용융방사에 있어서 불안정성을 연구하 였으며 혼합물의 유변학적 성질, 혼합물의 형태학적 특성과 연신공명과의 관계를 고찰한 것 이다. 신장점도는 spinline rheometer를 사용하여 측정하여 섬유직경은 광센서를 이용하여 방사공정에서 on-line 측정하였고 연신공명의 주기는 Fourier 변환을 이용하여 분석하였다. PP와 PE혼합물의 용융방사에 있어서 PP 함유량이 많을수록 연신공명이 발생하는 임계연신 비가 줄어들고 그 주기는 길어진다. 정상상태에서 구한 유변학적 성질을 이용하여 Shah와 Pearson의 이론식과 Fisher와 Denn의 이론식으로부터 구한 임계연신비값이 실험치와 많은 차이를 보여주었다. 연신공명에 의하여 형성된 섬유의 가는 부분의 배향도는 굵은 부분에 비하여 크게 향상되었으며 PP 함유량이 많을수록 배향도가 크게 증가하였다.

• Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 2001

This paper describes the application of our recently developed two-phase model for flow-induced crystallization (FIC) to the simulation of fiber spinning and film blowing. 1-D and 2-D simulations of fiber spinning include the combined effects of (FIC), viscoelasticity, filament cooling, air drag, inertia, surface tension and gravity and the process dynamics are modeled from the spinneret to the take-up roll device (below the freeze point). 1-D model fits and predictions are in very good quantitative agreement with high- and low-speed spinline data for both nylon and PET systems. Necking and the associated extensional softening are also predicted. Consistent with experimental observations, the 2-D model also predicts a skin-core structure at low and intermediate spin speeds, with the stress, chain extension and crystallinity being highest at the surface. Film blowing is simulated using a "quasi-cylindrical" approximation for the momentum equations, and simulations include the combined effects of flow-induced crystallization, viscoelasticity, and bubble cooling. The effects of inflation pressure, melt extrusion temperature and take-up ratio on the bubble shape are predicted to be in agreement with experimental observations, and the location of the frost line is predicted naturally as a consequence of flow-induced crystallization. An important feature of our FIC model is the ability to predict stresses at the freeze point in fiber spinning and the frost line in film blowing, both of which are related to the physical and mechanical properties of the final product.l product.