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Blends of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVF2) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) were prepared over a wide concentration range and tested in tension at the same relative temperature below the glass transition. Testing was performed at strain rates ranging from 10 to 0.01 min−1 at test temperatures fromT g-40 toT g-10. By normalizing the test temperature to fixed increments belowT g, blends and homopolymers can be compared on the basis of PVF2 and PMMA composition and crystallinity. In nearly all blends, under conditions favouring disentanglement, (decrease in strain rate, or increase in test temperature), the yield stress and drawing stress decreased while the breaking strain increased. For materials with about the same degree of crystallinity, those with a higher proportion of amorphous PVF2 exhibited brittle-like behaviour as a result of interlamellar tie molecules. In the semicrystalline blends, yield stress remains high as the test temperature approachesT g, whereas in the amorphous blends the yield stress falls to zero nearT g. Results of physical ageing support the role of interlamellar ties which cause semicrystalline blends to exhibit ageing at temperatures aboveT g.
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Cebe, P., Chung, S.Y. Tensile behaviour of blends of poly(vinylidene fluoride) with poly(methyl methacrylate). J Mater Sci 25, 2367–2378 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00638030
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