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Deformation recovery behaviour of a solid polymer after tensile yielding

Gluseppe SpadaroGlovanni Rizzo

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chemistry.chemical_classificationWork (thermodynamics)Materials sciencePolymers and PlasticsGeneral ChemistryPolymerDeformation (meteorology)Condensed Matter PhysicsAmorphous solidchemistryResidual stressvisual_artUltimate tensile strengthMaterials Chemistryvisual_art.visual_art_mediumPolycarbonateComposite material

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In this work the deformation recovery behavior of an amorphous polymer after large tensile deformation is studied at different temperatures. The effect of three parameters other than temperature has been pointed out in previous works (1–3). The data here presented indicate that the influence of all parameters, including temperature, on recovery behavior can be related to the residual stress, σ *, at the beginning of recovery test. This suggests to plot the recovery versus time curves, relative to different sets of parameters including temperature, by means of the same normalizing groups which were adopted in (2), thus shifting all curves towards a single master curve.

https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00256238