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Growth of arterial cracks in polymers subject to static and fatigue loading

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The growth kinetics of artificial and natural cracks (the former arising from notches) are studied in viscose, di- and triacetyl cellulose, nitrocellulose, polymethylmethacrylate, polystyrene, polypropylene, and carpon films by a micro-motion-picture method over a wide temperature range under both static and cyclic (fatigue) loading. In all the cellulose materials studied, the time required to form the nuclei of visible cracks is much shorter than the total life of the sample. The initial rate of crack growth depends exponentially on the applied stress and test temperature, so that the equation for the growth rate of an arterial crack is analogous to the general life equation. The different ways in which stress and test temperature affect the parameters of the equation describing the kinetics of crack growth enable us to distinguish the effect of local heating and that of the relaxation processes in the fatigue problem.

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A. F. Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 2, pp. 253–265, March–April, 1970.

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Leksovskii, A.M., Regel', V.R. Growth of arterial cracks in polymers subject to static and fatigue loading. Polymer Mechanics 6, 226–235 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00859194

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