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This work covers the dependence of the mechanical properties of polymer blends on their composition and their phase morphology. Blends of EPDM-elastomers and polypropylene were prepared covering the whole concentration range. The phase morphology was varied strongly by employing different mixing techniques and its morphology was characterized by means of electron microscopy and light microscopy, as well as by x-ray scattering and calorimetry.
Mechanical properties such as the complex shear modulus, the tensile modulus as well as the stress strain behavior were investigated as a function of the composition of the blends and their phase morphology. The experimental finding is that the complex modulus, the tensile modulus, the yield stress, and the ultimate stress are rather insensitive with respect to the phase morphology and vary continuosly with the composition. The elongation at break, on the other hand, as well as the impact strength were found to depend on the phase morphology and to vary discontinously with the composition. One conclusion to be drawn is that one is not always forced to control the phase morphology tightly during processing in order to obtain materials with sufficiently good mechanical properties. Rather, simple theoretical approaches, neglecting details of the phase morphology are frequently able to satisfactorily predict mechanical properties of multiphase blends.
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Hoppner, D., Wendorff, J.H. Investigations of the influence on the phase morphology of PP-EPDM-blends on their mechanical properties. Colloid & Polymer Sci 268, 500–512 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01410292
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