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The failure of an axially strained polymer solid having a fibrous structure is caused by formation, coalescence, and growth of microcracks up to critical size crack, which then propagates catastrophically through the cross-section of the sample. The primary candidates for microcrack formation are the ends of microfibrils where the material connection by tie molecules to the rest of the sample is almost completely interrupted. The opening of microcracks and sliding motion of fibrillar elements ruptures locally the most strained taut tie molecules and, thus, produces radicals detectable by ESR. But, chain rupture is the consequence and not the cause of displacement of the strong fibrillar elements. It also does not substantially affect the load carrying properties of the sample which mainly depend on the lateral autoadhesion of microfibrils and fibrils and on their quasi-viscous resistance to axial displacement. Hence, one has to reject the completely inadequate models trying to base the observed load-elongation curve of such samples on the load carrying properties of those tie molecules which are eventually ruptured upon straining. Some examples of these models are treated explicitly.
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The author wishes to dedicate this paper to Professor S. N. Zhurkov on the occasion of his 70th birthday, as a measure of appreciation for his substantial contribution to the analysis of fracture in polymeric solids.
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Peterlin, A. Structural model of mechanical properties and failure of crystalline polymer solids with fibrous structure. Int J Fract 11, 761–780 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00012895
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