THEORY OF THE RELAXATION SPECTRA OF CROSS-LINKED POLYMERS 
IN THE PRESENCE OF STRUCTURAL AND DYNAMIC HETEROGENEITY

Ya. Ya. Gotlib, A. A. Gurtovenko, I. A. Torchinskii, 
V. V. Toshchevikov, and V. A. Shevelev

UDC 541.64:539.199

The spectra of relaxation times of polymer meshes in the 
presence of various types of structural and dynamic heterogeneity 
have been considered. The influence of the orientation ordering of 
elements of macromolecules between the mesh nodes on the intrachain 
spectrum has been investigated. Analysis of the interchain large-scale 
processes in polymer meshes containing rodlike inclusions has been 
carried out. It has been shown that the presence of structural and 
dynamic heterogeneity of the above types along with the previously 
considered domain structure of cross-linked polymers leads to a fine 
structure of the relaxation spectra of polymer meshes.

Institute of High-Molecular Compounds, Russian Academy 
of Sciences, St. Petersburg; email: yygotlib@imc.macro.ru. Translated 
from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 76, No. 3, pp. 9-14, 
May-June, 2003. Original article submitted October 4, 2002.