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Effect of thermal treatments on the yielding of polycarbonate
Author(s) -
Kontou E.
Publication year - 2005
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.22077
Subject(s) - polycarbonate , materials science , composite material , glass transition , viscoplasticity , viscoelasticity , ultimate tensile strength , yield (engineering) , thermal , microstructure , liquid nitrogen , polymer , thermodynamics , constitutive equation , chemistry , physics , organic chemistry , finite element method
Two different thermal treatments were applied to polycarbonate (PC) in terms of slow cooling (annealed samples) after a thermal treatment at a temperature above the glass‐transition temperature or abrupt cooling in a liquid‐nitrogen environment (quenched samples). Tensile and compression experiments were performed on the two types of samples at three different effective strain rates. A viscoplastic model based on the fundamental assumptions of the Eyring model and on a kinematic formulation, which separated the viscoelastic and plastic strain, developed in previous works, was used to describe the yield and postyield behavior of thermally treated PC. The different thermal treatments affected the parameters of the material microstructure. A satisfactory agreement between the experimental data and calculated results was found. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 98: 796–805, 2005