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Energy‐related failure criteria of thermoplastics
Author(s) -
Brüller O. S.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
polymer engineering and science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.503
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1548-2634
pISSN - 0032-3888
DOI - 10.1002/pen.760210306
Subject(s) - creep , materials science , viscoelasticity , crazing , relaxation (psychology) , stress relaxation , viscoplasticity , nonlinear system , stress (linguistics) , fracture (geology) , simple (philosophy) , deformation (meteorology) , composite material , thermodynamics , constitutive equation , polymer , finite element method , psychology , social psychology , physics , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology , quantum mechanics
Three aspects of the failure of thermoplastics, having a special importance in engineering, are investigated. They are: (a) Transition from linear to nonlinear viscoelasticity; (b) Crazing; (c) Fracture. Energy related criteria, developed from the Reiner‐Weissenberg thermodynamical theory of strength, are used for the characterization and prediction of failure under its different forms, for simple uniaxial loading histories such as creep, stress relaxation and constant rate of strain. The computation of the stored and dissipated parts of the specific stress energy becomes possible in a relatively simple way, if the relaxation modulus and the creep compliance are approximated by Prony‐Dirichlet‐type series with a finite number of terms. Published experimental data, as well as experiments carried out by the author on different thermoplastics are in very good agreement with theoretical results. Further, based on experimental data, the equations obtained can be reduced to very simple and useful relations. The influence of elevated temperatures (below the glassy‐transition point) on failure is also considered.