Preparation of High Modulus Poly(Ethylene Terephthalate): Influence of Molecular Weight, Extrusion, and Drawing Parameters

Table 5

A comparison of mechanical properties of PET produced in this work and in literature.

	This work	Kunugi et al. [18]	Fakirov and Evstatiev [2]	Long and Ward [19]	Suzuki et al. [5]
Draw-ratio	9.7	—	20	—	—
(—)
Tensile modulus	20.0	19.4	18.6	17.5	15.1
(GPa)
Tensile strength	0.93	0.80	0.6	0.97	1.20
(GPa)
Strain to failure	7.3	5.9	16	—	7.0
(%)