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The local strains in unmodified and rubber-modified epoxies under multiaxial stress states were examined. Matrix ductility was varied by using epoxide resins of different epoxide monomer molecular weights. The stress state was altered from a plane strain case to a plane stress case by varying the thickness of the test specimens. It was confirmed that, in the case of unmodified resins, the thinner specimens which experienced nearly uniaxial tensile stress exhibited much higher local strains at failure than the thicker counterparts which experienced highly triaxial tensile stress. Also, the cross-link density was reduced as monomer molecular weight increased, thus the increase in local plastic strain due to the stress state change also became greater. Furthermore, it was found that rubber modification markedly increased the plastic strain to failure, irrespective of the specimen dimensions, and that the extent of this plastic strain increased as cross-link density was lowered. These results are consistent with the concept that the cavitation of rubber particles relieves the initial multiaxial constraint in a thick specimen, induces a stress state closer to plane stress throughout the specimen, and consequently enables the matrix to deform to a larger extent. The results also show clearly that the toughenability of a matrix resin is not independent of the stress state and the matrix ductility.
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Kishi, H., Shi, YB., Huang, J. et al. Ductility and toughenability study of epoxy resins under multiaxial stress states. Journal of Materials Science 33, 3479–3488 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013222421843
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