How Melt-Stretching Affects Mechanical Behavior of Polymer Glasses
How Melt-Stretching Affects Mechanical Behavior of Polymer Glasses
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DOI:
10.1021/ma300955h
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发表时间:
2012-08
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5.5
通讯作者:
Gregory D. Zartman;Shiwang Cheng;Xin Li;Feiyue Lin;M. Becker;Shi‐Qing Wang
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作者:
Gregory D. Zartman;Shiwang Cheng;Xin Li;Feiyue Lin;M. Becker;Shi‐Qing Wang
This work takes a simple phenomenological approach to the questions of when, how, and why a brittle polymer glass turns ductile and vice versa. Perceiving a polymer glass as a hybrid, we recognize that both the primary structure formed by van der Waals forces (network 1) and chain network (i.e., the vitrified entanglement network) (network 2) must be accounted for in any discussion of the mechanical responses. To show the benefit of this viewpoint, we first carried out well-defined melt-stretching experiments on four common polymer glasses (PS, PMMA, SAN, and PC) in a systematic way either at a fixed Hencky strain rate to a given degree of stretching at several temperatures or at a given temperature to different levels of stretching using the same Hencky rate. Then we attempted to preserve the effect of melt-stretching on the chain network structure by rapid thermal quenching. Subsequent room-temperature tensile extension of these melt-stretched amorphous polymers reveals something universal: (a) along th...