Abstract
Plastic parts are increasingly used in engineering applications with high demands on long-term mechanical behaviour. Therefore, suitable accelerated test methods are strongly required. The Stepped Isothermal Method (SIM), a short-term creep experiment during which the temperature is elevated stepwise, was originally developed for product testing of geosynthetics. This method was successfully applied to characterise the long-term creep behaviour of polypropylene tensile specimens. The measured strain can be rescaled and subsequently shifted according to the time–temperature superposition principle (TTSP) to build a master curve out of a single experiment. SIM master curves matched the results of the classical TTSP procedure while reducing the experimental effort to a minimum. This offers a useful tool, e.g. for a quick screening of material formulations during the early development stages or the at-line assessment of resins as part of quality assurance. Furthermore, SIM experiments can be performed until creep failure and, thus, accelerate the determination of the creep strength and the construction of creep rupture curves.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Ferry, J.D.: Viscoelastic Properties of Polymers, 3rd edn. Wiley, New York (1980)
Leaderman, H.: Creep and creep recovery in plasticized polyvinyl chloride. Ind. Eng. Chem. 35, 374–378 (1943)
Tobolsky, A.V., Andrews, R.D.: Systems manifesting superposed elastic and viscous behavior. J. Chem. Phys. 13, 3–27 (1945)
Seitz, J.T., Balazs, C.F.: Application of time-temperature superposition principle to long term engineering properties of plastic materials. Polym. Eng. Sci. 8, 151–160 (1968)
Williams, M.L., Landel, R.F., Ferry, J.D.: The temperature dependence of relaxation mechanisms in amorphous polymers and other glass-forming liquids. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 77, 3701–3707 (1955)
Thornton, J.S., Allen, S.R., Thomas, R.W., Sandri, D.: The stepped isothermal method for time-temperature superposition and its application to creep data on polyester yarn. In: Rowe, R.K. (ed.) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Geosynthetics (Atlanta, 25.– 29.03.1998). Industrial Fabrics Association International, Roseville (1998), pp. 699–706
Thornton, J.S., Paulson, J.N., Sandri, D.: Conventional and stepped isothermal methods for characterizing long term creep strength of polyester geogrids creep of product. In: Rowe, R.K. (ed.) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Geosynthetics (Atlanta, 25.– 29.03.1998). Industrial Fabrics Association International, Roseville (1998), pp. 691–698
Zornberg, J.G., Byler, B.R., Knudsen, J.W.: Creep of geotextiles using time–temperature superposition methods. J. Geotech. Geoenvironmental Eng. 130, 1158–1168 (2004)
Bueno, B.S., Costanzi, M.A., Zornberg, J.G.: Conventional and accelerated creep tests on nonwoven needle-punched geotextiles. Geosynthetics Int. 12, 276–287 (2005)
Yeo, S.-S., Hsuan, Y.G.: Evaluation of creep behavior of high density polyethylene and polyethylene-terephthalate geogrids. Geotext. Geomembr. 28, 409–421 (2010)
Alwis, K.G.N.C., Burgoyne, C.J.: Accelerated creep testing for aramid fibres using the stepped isothermal method. J. Mater. Sci. 43, 4789–4800 (2008)
Thomas, R., Nelson, J., Cuttino, D.: The use of the stepped isothermal method for estimating the long-term creep modulus, creep strain and strength of polyethylene pipe resins. In: Proceedings of Plastic Pipes XV (Vancouver, 20.–22.09.2010). Vancouver (2010), p. 10
Bozorg-Haddad, A., Iskander, M.: Predicting compressive creep behavior of virgin HDPE using thermal acceleration. J. Mater. Civ. Eng. 23, 1154–1162 (2011)
Achereiner, F., Engelsing, K., Bastian, M., Heidemeyer, P.: Accelerated creep testing of polymers using the stepped isothermal method. Polym. Test. 32, 447–454 (2013)
Findley, W.N., Lai, J.S., Onaran, K.: Creep and Relaxation of Nonlinear Viscoelastic Materials with an Introduction to Linear Viscoelasticity. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics 18, North-Holland Publishing, Amsterdam New York Oxford (1976)
Brinson, H.F., Brinson, L.C.: Polymer Engineering Science and Viscoelasticity—An Introduction. Springer, US, New York (2008)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2017 Springer International Publishing AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Achereiner, F., Engelsing, K., Bastian, M. (2017). Accelerated Measurement of the Long-Term Creep Behaviour of Plastics. In: Grellmann, W., Langer, B. (eds) Deformation and Fracture Behaviour of Polymer Materials. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 247. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41879-7_27
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41879-7_27
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-41877-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-41879-7
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials ScienceChemistry and Material Science (R0)