1. Creep rupture and viscoelastoplasticity of polypropylene
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Drozdov, A.D.
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CREEP (Materials) , *VISCOELASTICITY , *VISCOPLASTICITY , *POLYPROPYLENE , *POLYMER testing , *STRAINS & stresses (Mechanics) , *TEMPERATURE effect , *DEFORMATIONS (Mechanics) , *NUMERICAL analysis - Abstract
Abstract: Observations are reported on isotactic polypropylene in tensile tests with various strain rates, relaxation tests at various strains, and creep tests with various stresses at room temperature. Constitutive equations are derived for the viscoelastic and viscoplastic responses of semicrystalline polymers at three-dimensional deformations with small strains. The stress–strain relations involve eight material constants that are found by fitting the experimental data. The model is applied to the numerical analysis of creep failure of polypropylene under various deformation modes (uniaxial tension, equi-biaxial tension, shear, multiple-step creep tests). [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2010
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