TY - JOUR
T1 - Craze growth response in stress relaxation conditions for a styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer during physical aging
AU - Delin, Mats
AU - McKenna, Gregory B.
N1 - Funding Information:
M. Delin is grateful to the National Institute of Standards and Technology for providing a Visiting Scientist position, and to the Swedish Research Council for Engineering Sciences (TFR) for a post-doctoral fellowship. We also thank the Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan, for supplying the SAN.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Craze growth in a styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer (SAN) was studied as a function of time after a quench (physical aging) at four different temperatures between 22 and 60°C. The craze growth experiments were performed in stress relaxation conditions. The craze length was found to grow linearly on a logarithmic loading time scale. A transition in the logarithmic growth rate was found to occur on the logarithmic aging time scale. The transition was observed as a change in rate from high to approximately five times slower and occurred over a relatively narrow range of aging times. The growth rate in the slow growth regime was relatively insensitive to temperature for all four temperatures studied. The transition was found to move to shorter aging times as temperature increases. Although the craze length between crazes in a sample could differ to a large extent, the growth rates themselves, were found to vary only within a ±20% band.
AB - Craze growth in a styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer (SAN) was studied as a function of time after a quench (physical aging) at four different temperatures between 22 and 60°C. The craze growth experiments were performed in stress relaxation conditions. The craze length was found to grow linearly on a logarithmic loading time scale. A transition in the logarithmic growth rate was found to occur on the logarithmic aging time scale. The transition was observed as a change in rate from high to approximately five times slower and occurred over a relatively narrow range of aging times. The growth rate in the slow growth regime was relatively insensitive to temperature for all four temperatures studied. The transition was found to move to shorter aging times as temperature increases. Although the craze length between crazes in a sample could differ to a large extent, the growth rates themselves, were found to vary only within a ±20% band.
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1009826600060
DO - 10.1023/A:1009826600060
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034497272
SN - 1385-2000
VL - 4
SP - 231
EP - 255
JO - Mechanics Time-Dependent Materials
JF - Mechanics Time-Dependent Materials
IS - 3
ER -