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Craze growth in PMMA under cyclic loads
Author(s) -
Marshall G. P.,
Williams J. G.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.1973.070170401
Subject(s) - crazing , materials science , fracture (geology) , composite material , stress (linguistics) , flow (mathematics) , cyclic stress , mechanics , polymer , philosophy , linguistics , physics
A series of tests have been conducted to measure the effects of fatigue loading on environmental stress crazing in PMMA. Testing in methanol has shown that long crazes are grown prior to fracture in the same manner as previously observed for constant‐load conditions. An analytical model which had been used to describe craze kinetics in terms of environmental flow within the craze for static loads has been amended to account for the variable loads and gives excellent prediction of craze speeds under numerous types of loading. The correlation of theory and experimental data for this second case suggests that environmental crazing is controlled mainly by the way in which the hostile environment is able to flow through the voided structure of the craze. A brief description of the effects of varying the cyclic frequency is also given in an attempt to provide guidelines for future research.