Open AccessInvestigation on the crack healing effect in dimethyl phthalate series glassy materials
Author(s) -
Xiuzhen Guo,
Zhou Heng-Wei,
Lili Zhang,
Wu Wen-Hui,
Zhang Jin-Lu,
Yineng Huang
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.59.417
Subject(s) - cracking , materials science , dimethyl phthalate , dibutyl phthalate , glass transition , composite material , diethyl phthalate , environmental stress cracking , phthalate , polymer , stress corrosion cracking , alloy
The stress cracking and crack-healing effects in dimethyl phthalate, diethyl phthalate, dibutyl phthalate and dioctyl phthalate series glassy materials was measured by the recently invented method (RMS-L-CH) which measures the stress cracking and crack healing in situ and further analysis and discussions on the crack healing phenomenon as well as its relation to the glass transition are presented. The results validate that the RMS-L-CH method is effective and may provide a new means to characterize the glass transition and to probe into the glass transition mechanism.