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Effect of impact modification on slow crack growth in poly(vinyl chloride)

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The effect of impact modification on slow crack growth in a poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) compound was examined in order to test a methodology for predicting long-term creep fracture from short-term tension-tension fatigue tests. In all cases the crack propagated in a stepwise manner through a crack tip craze zone. Step length was analyzed in terms of the Dugdale model for a crack tip plastic zone. The overall crack growth rate in fatigue and creep followed the conventional Paris power law with the same power 2.7, da/dt = A f ΔK I 2.7 and da/dt = BK I 2.7,respectively. The effects of frequency, temperature, and R-ratio (the ratio of the minimum to maximum stress intensity factor in the fatigue loading cycle) on the Paris prefactor were determined. Crack growth rate was modeled as the product of a creep contribution that depended only on the maximum stress intensity factor and a fatigue contribution that depended on strain rate da/dt = B f K I,max 2.7 (1 + C ε, where C is a coefficient defining the strain rate sensitivity. A linear correlation allowed for extrapolation of the creep prefactor B f from fatigue data. Impact modification decreased B f but had no effect on C.

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  1. Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, and Center for Applied Polymer Research, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106-7202, USA

    T. E. Bernal-Lara, Y. Hu, A. Hiltner & E. Baer

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Bernal-Lara, T.E., Hu, Y., Summers, J. et al. Effect of impact modification on slow crack growth in poly(vinyl chloride). Journal of Materials Science 39, 2979–2988 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JMSC.0000025823.39995.40

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