1. Strain Rate-Dependent Hyperbolic Constitutive Model for Tensile Behavior of PE100 Pipe Material.
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Li, Yan, Luo, Wenbo, Li, Maodong, Yang, Bo, and Liu, Xiu
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STRAIN rate , *YIELD stress , *PIPE , *HIGH density polyethylene , *POLYMERS - Abstract
It is not conservative to directly use the strength tested under the laboratory loading rates to evaluate the long-term creep strength of polymers. A suitable strain rate-dependent constitutive model is crucial for accurately predicting the long-term strength and mechanical behavior of polymer pressure pipes. In this study, the Kondner hyperbolic constitutive model is considered the base model in deriving the rate-dependent constitutive model for PE100 pipe material, and the yield stress and initial tangent modulus are the two rate-dependent parameters of the model. Uniaxial tension tests are carried out under five specified strain rates ranging from 10−5 s−1 to 5 × 10−2 s−1 to obtain these two parameters. It is demonstrated that the strain rate dependence of the yield stress and the initial tangent modulus can be described by either a power or a logarithm law. The predictions from the two models are in good agreement with the experiments. In contrast, the power-law rate-dependent Kondner model is more suitable for describing the rate-dependent tensile behavior of PE100 pipe material than the logarithm-law rate-dependent Kondner model, especially for the cases of very low strain rates which relate to the polymer pressure pipe applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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