Effect of Loading Conditions on the Mechanical Behaviour of Propylene Polymers

LAURA FASCE; VALERIA PETTARIN; CELINA BERNAL; PATRICIA FRONTINI

Hong-Kong

Conferencia; 2nd. East Asian Polymer Conference (EAPC-2); 1999

In recent years, propylene polymers  have been able to steadily increase their market share by entering new application segments. The reasons for a further continuation of this trend are a very advantageous price/property relation and to the fact that homopolymer can be modified by copolymerization and/or by changing processing  conditions to cover a wide range of final properties. As other polymeric materials their uses are always expanding into new fields and ever-greater performance is demanded, especially in the area of high strain rate. The present investigation is concerned with the evaluation of the mechanical behaviour of propylene polymers under different loading conditions.