Viscoelastic Creep Crack Growth: A Review of Fracture Mechanical Analyses

被引：29

作者：

Bradley W. ^{[1
]}

Cantwell W.J. ^{[2
]}

Kausch H.H. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX

[2] Materials Science Department, EPFL, Swiss Fed. Institute of Technology

来源：

Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials | 1997年 / 1卷 / 3期

关键词：

Fracture; Fracture mechanics; Polymers; Viscoelastic crack growth;

D O I：

10.1023/A:1009766516429

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摘要：

The study of time dependent crack growth in polymers using a fracture mechanics approach has been reviewed. The time dependence of crack growth in polymers is seen to be the result of the viscoelastic deformation in the process zone, which causes the supply of energy to drive the crack to occur over time rather than instantaneously, as it does in metals. Additional time dependence in the crack growth process can be due to process zone behavior, where both the flow stress and the critical crack tip opening displacement may be dependent on the crack growth rate. Instability leading to slip-stick crack growth has been seen to be the consequence of a decrease in the critical energy release rate with increasing crack growth rate due to adiabatic heating causing a reduction in the process zone flow stress, a decrease in the crack tip opening displacement due to a ductile to brittle transition at higher crack growth rates, or an increase in the rate of fracture work due to more rapid viscoelastic deformation. Finally, various techniques to experimentally characterize the crack growth rate as a function of stress intensity have been critiqued.

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页码：241 / 268

页数：27

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