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Contribution of crazing to the toughness of amorphous and semicrystalline polymers
Author(s) -
Michler Goerg H.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
makromolekulare chemie. macromolecular symposia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-3900
pISSN - 0258-0322
DOI - 10.1002/masy.19910410106
Subject(s) - crazing , polymer , materials science , amorphous solid , crystallinity , toughness , composite material , deformation (meteorology) , polymer science , crystallography , chemistry
Crazes or craze‐like deformation bands occur in many different polymers. Mechanisms of initiation and growth of the crazes have been studied using different techniques of electron microscopy. Examples of modifying amorphous and semi‐crystalline polymers are given to demonstrate to which extent the macroscopic toughness of the polymers is affected by changes in the microscopic structure and by the amount of crazes.