Studies on a new craze phenomenon in bisphenol-A polycarbonate: Craze initiation by stress-activated molecular disentanglement

Autor: M. Dettenmaier, H. H. Kausch
Rok vydání: 1981
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Zdroj: Colloid and Polymer Science. 259:937-945
ISSN: 1435-1536
0303-402X
Popis: It is demonstrated that under appropriate deformation conditions intrinsic crazes (crazes II) are initiated in unoriented and pre-oriented polycarbonate which is stretched to its natural draw ratio. Molecular disentanglement is proposed as the mechanism governing craze II initiation. The same molecular mechanism must be assumed to play an important role for the fracture of polycarbonate and for other instability phenomena such as those associated with the self-oscillations of polyethyleneterephthalate, polypropylene and polyamide and with the stress-whitening of polymethylmethacrylate.
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