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The crystal orientation behavior during stretching of a spherulitic high-density polyethylene was observed from the standpoint of changes in uniaxial orientation distribution functions qj(ζj, 0) for 13 different (j-th) crystal planes and further w(ξ, 0, η) for crystallites (crystal grains) both as functions of the extension ratio of a bulk specimen. It was found that two populations develop in w(ξ, 0, η) at θ somewhat larger than 30° and η of 90° and at θ a little smaller than 30° and η of 0° and move to smaller values of θ to some extent, as the extension ratio was increased up to 1.4. The former population seemed to develop posteriorly but at a much greater rate than the latter population. The uniaxial deformation mechanism of polyethylene spherulites is discussed quantitatively by comparing the dependence of w(ξ, 0, η) upon the extension ratio with that calculated from a spherulite deformation model which combines the crystal lamellar orientation in affine fashion with the reorientation of the crystal grains within the orienting lamellae. The crystal reorientation mechanism may be represented by two preferential fashions which involve rotations of the crystal grains about their own a- or b-axes so as to orient their c-axes toward the stretching direction. The rotations of the crystal grains about the crystal a- or b-axes must be associated, respectively, with intra-lamellar shearing or lamellar detwisting and must be accentuated in the polar or equatorial zone of the uniaxially deformed spherulites to give the population at θ a little larger than 30° and η of 90° or at θ a little smaller than 30° and η of 0°.
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Fujita, Ki., Suehiro, S., Nomura, S. et al. Rheo-Optical Studies on the Deformation Mechanism of Semicrystalline Polymers. XIII. Uniaxial Deformation Mechanism of Polyethylene Spherulites as Observed by Orientation Distribution Function of Crystallites. Polym J 14, 545–562 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1295/polymj.14.545
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