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The physical properties of glassy polymers vary more strongly with time and temperature than those of other materials, such as metal and ceramics, because of the inherent, irreversible nature of glassy polymers and their significantly lower glass transition temperature. The purpose of this chapter is trying to establish a direct link between the structural relaxation and the mechanical properties of polymers in the glassy state. Because the nonequilibrium structure relaxes very slowly in the glassy state, the long time behavior and thermal history become a major concern. This characteristic is usually known as the physical aging phenomena, and the discussions here are going to be mainly devoted to the volumetric and mechanical properties.
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Chow, T.S. (2000). Glassy Polymers. In: Mesoscopic Physics of Complex Materials. Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2108-1_6
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