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Experimental Study and Modelling of Poly (Methyl Methacrylate) and Polycarbonate Compressive Behavior from Low to High Strain Rates

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This paper concerns an experimental investigation of Polycarbonate and Poly (methyl methacrylate) compressive behavior from low to high strain rates. Experiments were conducted from 0.001/s to ≈ 5000/s for PC and from 0.001/s to ≈ 2000/s for PMMA. The true strain–stress behavior is established and analyzed at various stain rates. Both PC and PMMA mechanical behavior appears as known, to be strain rate and temperature dependent. The DSGZ model is selected for modelling the strain–stress curves while the yield stress is reproduced using the cooperative model and a modified Eyring equation based on Eyring first process theory. All the three models predictions are in agreement with experiments performed on PC and PMMA.

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  1. Laboratoire d’Innovation Durable et de Recherche Appliquée (LIDRA), Ecole Polytechnique d’Agadir, Universiapolis, Bab Al Madina, Quartier Tillila, 80000, Agadir, Morocco

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  2. Laboratory of Microstructure Studies and Mechanics of Materials, UMR-CNRS 7239, Lorraine University, 7 rue Félix Savart, BP 15082, 57073, Metz Cedex 03, France

    L. Colard, R. Matadi Boumbimba & A. Rusinek

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El-Qoubaa, Z., Colard, L., Matadi Boumbimba, R. et al. Experimental Study and Modelling of Poly (Methyl Methacrylate) and Polycarbonate Compressive Behavior from Low to High Strain Rates. J. dynamic behavior mater. 4, 179–189 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40870-018-0147-5

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