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The crack tip fields in amorphous glassy polymers are distinctly different from that in metals, and are associated with the initiation and propagation of shear bands. To study the effect of temperature on the neartip behaviour for a stationary mode I crack, computations at low loading rates are confronted with adiabatic computations at high loading rates. It is shown that self-heating can raise the temperature in SAN sufficiently high locally to reach the glass transition temperature.
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Van Der Giessen, E., Lai, J. (1999). Temperature Effects on Crack Tip Plasticity in Polymers. In: Bruhns, O.T., Stein, E. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Micro- and Macrostructural Aspects of Thermoplasticity. Solid Mechanics and its Applications, vol 62. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46936-7_16
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