Experimental and modeling study of the viscoelastic-viscoplastic deformation behavior of amorphous polymers over a wide temperature range

F Liu, J Wang, S Long, H Zhang, X Yao - Mechanics of Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
The deformation behavior of amorphous polymers in the post-yield region is viscoelastic-
viscoplastic (VE-VP) as it exhibits both viscoelastic and viscoplastic characteristics …

Enabling room-temperature mechanochromic activation in a glassy polymer: synthesis and characterization of spiropyran polycarbonate

Y Vidavsky, SJ Yang, BA Abel, I Agami… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Mechanochromic functionality realized through force-responsive molecules (ie,
mechanophores) has great potential for spatially localized damage warning in polymers …

A finite strain thermodynamically-based constitutive modeling and analysis of viscoelastic-viscoplastic deformation behavior of glassy polymers

J Wang, LF Peng, YJ Deng, XM Lai, MW Fu… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
In elastic and plastic deformation of glassy polymers and with the increase of deformation,
the material would exhibit elastic, viscoelastic, and viscoelastic-viscoplastic (VE-VP) …

Mechanoactivation of spiropyran covalently linked PMMA: effect of temperature, strain rate, and deformation mode

JW Kim, Y Jung, GW Coates, MN Silberstein - Macromolecules, 2015 - ACS Publications
Polymer multifunctionality can be designed through the incorporation of chemical groups
termed “mechanophores” that have a specific chemical transformation in response to …

Creep behavior of polyetherimide semipreg and epoxy prepreg composites: structure vs. property relationship

AK Reis, FM Monticelli, RM Neves… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
In the present study, the creep behavior of polyetherimide semipreg and epoxy prepreg
composites was studied using dynamic mechanical analyzer and focused on structure vs …

Physically-based interpretation of abnormal stress relaxation response in glassy polymers

J Lin, P Zhu, C Tian, H Zhou, R **ao - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the mechanical responses of glassy polymers remains a grand scientific
challenge for many decades, which plays a central role in the application of these materials …

Experimental and constitutive analyses of the stress relaxation behavior of glassy polymers

F Liu, J Wang, H Zhang, X Yao - Polymer Engineering & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The physical mechanism underlying the mechanical behavior of glassy polymers has been
studied over decades but remains a long‐standing issue. A consensus view achieved is that …

Nonlinear stress relaxation behavior of ductile polymer glasses from large extension and compression

J Liu, P Lin, X Li, SQ Wang - Polymer, 2015 - Elsevier
We study nonlinear stress relaxation behavior of several polymer glasses during ductile
large deformation of either extension or compression over a wide range of deformation rate …

Brittle‐ductile transition in uniaxial compression of polymer glasses

J Liu, Z Zhao, W Wang, JW Mays… - Journal of Polymer …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We carried out a large set of tests to establish a correlation between the molecular (network)
structure (influenced by molecular weight, molecular weight distribution, and melt …

Effect of temperature on postyield segmental dynamics of poly (methyl methacrylate) glasses: Thermally activated transitions are important

K Hebert, B Bending, J Ricci, MD Ediger - Macromolecules, 2015 - ACS Publications
Optical probe reorientation measurements were utilized to investigate the effect of
temperature on the segmental dynamics of a glassy polymer during deformation. Constant …