| Abstract: | Hydrostatic pressure results in decrease in the creep rate of a polymer loaded by tensile stress. The decrease in the creep rate is associated with the increase in intermolecular interaction. The correlation found between the creep rate of material loaded by a constant tensile force and with change in the melting temperature of a polymer under pressure appears to be commensurate with change in intermolecular interaction.A. F. Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 2, pp. 359–362, March–April, 1976. |
