Effect of temperature and moisture on the creep of polymeric materials 1. One-dimensional extension under stationary temperature-moisture conditions

Creep tests have been carried out on PN-3 polyester resin for one-dimensional tension in the linear region of the stress-strain relation at various fixed values of the temperature and moisture content of the material. The temperature and moisture dependence of the instantaneous elasticity and creep characteristics of the material have been determined. It is shown that time-temperature-moisture superposition can apply in creep under various fixed temperature-moisture conditions.Institute of Polymer Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR, Riga. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 3, pp. 393–399, May–June, 1975.     

Plane-stress creep of a glass-reinforced plastic

The creep behavior of an orthotropic glass-reinforced plastic based on Polimal'-109 resin and 19-S4 glass fabric is described. A special device for testing tubular specimens in plane-stress creep has been designed. The loading conditions include combined torsion and tension, internal pressure, and loading along the principal directions of anisotropy. Constitutive equations describing creep and recovery are proposed for the two-dimensional case.Warsaw. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 3, pp. 398–410, May–June, 1971.     

Creep and long-time strength of oriented glass-reinforced plastics in interlaminar shear

The creep and long-time strength in interlaminar shear and the creep in compression in the direction of the reinforcement have been experimentally investigated for certain types of oriented glass-reinforced plastics. The specimens in the interlaminar creep tests took the form of short beams loaded in bending. The experimental creep data for shear and compression are well described by the hereditary theory with a kernel of the Abel type (shear) or in the form of a Rabotnov function (compression). If the stresses are constant in time, good agreement with experiment is also given by Findley's form of the aging theory. A deformation criterion of interlaminar shear strength is also obtained. The experimental curves and values of the creep and long-time strength constants are presented.Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 6, pp. 1003–1012, November–December, 1971.     

Influence of physical aging on creep of rubber

The effect of physical aging on the creep response of chloropren rubber filled with carbon black was studied. The method of reduced variables and analytical method of determination of influence of physical aging on the creep compliance in short creep time test are proposed.Glówny Instytut Górnictwa, Pl. Gwarków 1, 40–166 Katowice, Poland. Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, No. 1, pp. 112–118, January–February, 1997.     

Comparison of the effect of ultraviolet radiation on polymer creep rate in a vacuum and in air

The effect of ultraviolet radiation on the creep rates of various polymers has been investigated in a vacuum and in air. It is shown that the ambient medium plays very little part in the processes leading to an increase in creep rate in the presence of ultraviolet radiation.Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 3, pp. 559–561, May–June, 1969.     

Creep in unidirectionally reinforced polymer composites

Conclusions We have explored here the possibilities of predicting the permanent creep in unidirectionally reinforced polymer composite materials from the results of accelerated testing of their components. The mutually independent components of the viscoelastic compliance tensor under conditions of creep have been calculated with the aid of the Laplace transformation and an earlier verified variant of determining the mean elastic characteristics of a composite material, whereupon the originals of the sought functions have been obtained by a numerical inverse Laplace transformation. Experiments were performed with unidirectionally reinforced materials, a glass-plastic, an organoplastic, a carbon-plastic, and a boroplastic, all tested in tension in the direction of fiber reinforcement and in the transverse direction, also in longitudinal shear. The possibilities of predicting the creep in composite materials with the aid of functions characterizing the viscoelastic compliance of the binder and obtained by the method of temperature-time analogy have been confirmed twofold: by long-duration (up to 3 yr) control tests performed on the given materials and by control calculation of the creep in these composite materials from results of direct long-duration (up to 5 yr) tests performed on specimens of the binder.Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, No. 2, pp. 215–223, March–April, 1984.     

Creep of linear unoriented polymers in tension,compression, and torsion

The creep of polymethyl methacrylate, polystyrene, and polyethylene in tension, compression, and torsion has been investigated over a broad interval of temperature below the glass transition point. It is shown that the creep criterion changes depending on the temperature. This is associated with changes in molecular mobility.A. F. Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 1, pp. 24–28, January–February, 1970.     

Vibrational creep of polymeric materials

An experimental study of the effect of vibration on the creep process has been carried out in the case of the rigid porous polyurethane PPU-3, as a function of the magnitude of the vibrational loading and the level of basic static stresses. It has been shown that with increase in the velocity amplitude of the dynamic stresses, the creep process is accelerated, without being accompanied thereupon by vibrational heating of the material. The possibility has been established of approximating vibrational creep curves by the integral equation of Volterra, using a discrete series of relaxation times transformed by the vibro-time analogy method.For Communication No. 3, see [1].Institute of Polymer Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR, Riga. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 2, pp. 223–232, March–April, 1970.     

Thermomechanical and optical properties of Makrolon

The thermomechanical and optical properties, short-time creep, recovery, vibrocreep, and the relaxation behavior of Makrolon have been experimentally investigated.Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 46–53, 1967     

Time — Moisture superposition

The results of creep tests on PN-3 polyester resin are given for various values of the temperature and moisture content of the material. It is shown that moisture content and time, like temperature and time, have an interchangeable effect on creep; i.e., in addition to a time-temperature (T-t) there is also a time-moisture (w-t) analogy. The (w-t) analogy can be used to predict the long-time creep from accelerated test data.Institute of Polymer Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Latian SSR, Riga. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 5, pp. 780–786, September–October, 1972.     

Limiting states of rigid polyvinyl chloride in creep

Creep tests at constant stresses have been carried out on crystalline polyvinyl chloride (PVC) at 16, 40, and 60° to determine its limiting states (i.e., states defining its creep strength, complete cessation of creep strain, and the boundary of the range of invariance of the mechanical properties), which are shown to be described by exponential functions. An approximate method of determining creep is developed; in this method the creep strength is defined as the stress corresponding to the point of intersection of the limiting equilibrium curves and the stress/time-to-rupture curves.Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 81–86, 1965     

Mechanical properties of a hollow-fiber glass-reinforced plastic

The strength and elastic properties of a hollow-fiber glass-reinforced plastic are investigated together with the effect of temperature, and long-time and cyclic loading on its mechanical characteristics. The instantaneous moduli of elasticity and the creep kernel parameters are obtained on the basis of the creep diagrams.Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 2, pp. 341–345, March–April, 1971.     

Transient creep of glass-reinforced plastic

Short-time (up to 30 min) creep tests on SVAM glass-fiber orthotropic material at 20°C have shown that it is subject to creep even at room temperature. At the same time, the behavior of this material in creep is observed to be markedly anisotropic.Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 47–54, 1965     

Creep of fluoroplastic under the joint action of tension and hydrostatic pressure

Conclusions 1. The effect of hydrostatic pressure on the creep of Teflon has been investigated under isothermal conditions. The applicability of the principle of reduced variables for reduction of creep curves with respect to pressure has been shown.2. It has been ascertained that in the pressure region from atmospheric to 1600 kgf/cm² there are two subregions, which are separated by a transition at a pressure of 700–800 kgf/cm². It has been shown that in these subregions the occurrence of relaxation processes has different characters.3. A direct measurement of the free volume of Teflon has been made in the temperature range from 40 to 120°C. A sharp increase in free volume in the region of the temperature transition has been shown.Leningrad Technological Institute of the Refrigeration Industry. Okhtinsk Scientific and Industrial Union "Plastpolimer," Leningrad. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 3, pp. 434–438, May–June, 1977.     

Experimental determination of the transverse shear modulus of a wound glass-reinforced plastic in creep

It is proposed to determine the interlayer shear modulus in creep starting from the results of bending tests on simply supported beams with a concentrated load. It is assumed that the increase in deflection with time is caused by interlayer creep. The data of creep tests on wound glass-reinforced plastic beams are presented and used to determine the long-time interlayer shear modulus.Leningrad. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 370–372, March–April, 1969.     

Thermocreep of polyethylene in the cyclic temperature regime

The shear creep and recovery of low-density polyethylene has been investigated in the constant and cyclic temperature regimes. It is shown that in the cyclic regime the relaxation processes are accelerated and the nonisothermal creep strains become progressively greater than the isothermal strains at the maximum temperature of the cycle. In recovery the relaxation spectra are shifted along the time scale relative to the creep spectra, the shifts for simple shear and uniaxial tension being nonidentical.Institute of Polymer Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR, Riga. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 227–235, March–April, 1969.     

Effect of ultraviolet radiation on the creep rate of polymers

The effect of UV radiation on the creep rate of nine different polymers has been determined under load. A reversible increase in creep rate has been detected. This effect is attributable to radiation damage consisting in the breakage of bonds in the stressed polymer. The results obtained point to a close relationship between the processes of polymer fracture and deformation.Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 404–408, 1967     

Method of determining the volume and shear characteristics of elastico-viscous hereditary media from uniaxial-tension (compression) experiments

A method is proposed for determining the elastic constants — instantaneous modulus of elasticity, Poisson's ratio, shear modulus, bulk modulus, and the shear and volume influence functions — the shear creep kernel, the shear creep rate kernel, and the corresponding relaxation kernels from the data of creep or relaxation tests.Moscow. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 4, pp. 754–758, July–August, 1969.     

Choice of kernels in solving problems involving creep and relaxation

For the memory theory analysis of creep and relaxation processes whose rates have a singularity at the beginning of the process it is proposed to employ a kernel and the corresponding resolvent in the form of a series whose convergence is proved. An estimate of the convergence and an asymptotic formula for large times are also presented. The kernel, the resolvent and their integrals have been tabulated. Theoretical curves are constructed for certain parameters, and it is shown how they can be used in analyzing creep problems when the object is to find relaxation (creep) curves from experimental creep (relaxation) curves. It is noted that, given a suitable choice of parameters, it is possible to use the proposed functions to describe both finite and unlimited creep.Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 483–497, 1966     

Computer approximation of families of curves of physically nonlinear creep of polymer materials

The determination of confidence intervals of deformations was studied for an individual measurement and arithmetical mean common for all points of an experimental family of curves. From the experimental data on the creep of polyamide resin and five different analytical equations of physically nonlinear creep, the problems of the computer approximation of families of creep curves and the determination of the material parameters are discussed. A method is proposed for a quantitative evaluation of the degree of correspondence of the initial data to the similarity of isochronous creep curves and the similarity of the creep curves.Institute of Polymer Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR, Riga. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 2, pp. 220–229, March–April, 1976.