A model of traps for yield in amorphous glassy polymers |
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Authors: | A. D. Drozdov |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institute for Industrial Mathematics, 4 Hanachtom Street, Beersheba 84311, Israel Fax: (972)7-623-1211 e-mail: aleksey@cs.bgu.ac.il, IL |
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Abstract: | Summary Constitutive equations are derived for the viscoelastic and viscoplastic behavior of amorphous glassy polymers at isothermal loading with small strains. The model is based on the trapping concept: a disordered medium is treated as an ensemble of plastic flow units (with the characteristic size of micrometers), which, in turn, consist of a number of cooperative rearranging regions (with the characteristic length of nanometers). The viscoelastic response is described by rearrangement of relaxing regions, whereas the viscoplastic behavior is modeled as irreversible deformation of plastic units. Adjustable parameters are found by fitting observations for aromatic polyesters, nylon-66, polycarbonate block copolymers and an epoxy glass. Fair agreement is demonstrated between experimental data and results of numerical simulation. Received 17 November 1999; accepted for publication 23 March 2000 |
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Keywords: | glassy polymers viscoelasticity viscoplasticity yield constitutive equations |
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