Discussion of craze formation and growth in amorphous polymers in terms of the multiplicity of glass transition at low temperatures |
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Authors: | E. Donth G. H. Michler |
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Affiliation: | (1) Sektion Physik, Technische Hochschule Carl Schorlemmer Leuna-Merseburg, Merseburg, G.D.R.;(2) Wissenschaftliches Forschungs- und Koordinierungszentrum für Plast- und Elasterzeugung und -anwendung (WKZ) der chemischen Industrie im Kombinat VEB Chemische Werke Buna, Schkopau;(3) Present address: Institut für Festkörperphysik und Elektronenmikroskopie der AdW der DDR, Halle/Saale, G.D.R. |
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Abstract: | A craze, the typical deformation zone in an amorphous polymer, can be divided into a precraze and a proper craze. A better understanding of the two corresponding formation processes is possible in terms of glass transition multiplicity.The precraze is associated with the molecular mobility in the confined flow zone, which is part of the main transition. The proper craze corresponds to the mobility in the flow transition zone (terminal zone for shear). A negative pressure generated by nonuniaxial stress is considered to be important for the maintainance of the molecular mobility in these zones belowTg. The behavior of the zones at negative pressure and low temperatures Tg is considered using a pressure-temperature diagram. The fibril structure of crazes is discussed by a defect diffusion model for the proper glass transition; it is correlated with the sequential physical aging of the corresponding frozen structural defects. Typical mode lengths of the molecular mobilities in the different zones are compared with typical craze parameters. The structure of the craze material is considered to result from confined flow processes which cannot percolate because in the main transition the flow is confined by entanglements, and in the flow transition zone the flow is stopped by releasing the negative pressure due to crack propagation. |
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Keywords: | Amorphouspolymers crazeformation crazefibrilstructure crack multiplicity of glasstransition confinedflow negativepressure |
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