A theory of necking in semi-crystalline polymers

DOI10.1016/S0020-7683(02)00478-XzbMATH Open1032.74535arXivcond-mat/0203254OpenAlexW2063844576MaRDI QIDQ1870640FDOQ1870640

Authors: Arkadiy Leonov 

Publication date: 14 May 2003

Published in: International Journal of Solids and Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Necking or cold drawing is a smoothed jump in cross-sectional area of long and thin bars (filaments orfilms) propagating with a constant speed. The necks in polymers, first observed about seventy years ago, arenow commonly used in modern processing of polymer films and fibers. Yet till recently there was a lack infundamental understanding of necking mechanism(s). For semi-crystalline polymers with co-existingamorphous and crystalline phases, recent experiments revealed that such a mechanism is related tounfolding crystalline blocks. Using this idea, this paper develops a theoretical model and includes it in ageneral continuum framework. Additionally, the paper explains the forced (reversible) elasticity observedin slowly propagating polymeric necks, and also briefly analyses the viscoelastic effects and dissipative heatgeneration when polymer necks propagate fast enough.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0203254

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zbMATH Keywords

ratioNeckingStretchElongationForced elasticityPropagation speedSemi-crystalline polymers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60) Crystalline structure (74E15)

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