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Application of Normalization Method for Determining J—R Curves in the Amorphous Polymer PVC

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The increased industrial application of thermoplastics as engineering plastics has resulted in an increase of fracture mechanics research on polymer materials [1–5]. The fracture of polymers may become a decisive factor in material selection and their crack resistance, especially against stable crack growth, determines their usefulness in many applications (pp. 3–26, [6]). Therefore, much work has been done to develop effective evaluation methods for polymers and composites. For tough polymers that exhibit strong viscoelastic behaviour or significant plastic crack tip deformation during the process of fracture, elastic—plastic fracture mechanics (EPFM) methods have been successfully used to describe the fracture behaviour under quasi-static loading [7,8] and under dynamic loading [9,10].

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Che, M., Grellmann, W., Seidler, S. (2001). Application of Normalization Method for Determining J—R Curves in the Amorphous Polymer PVC. In: Grellmann, W., Seidler, S. (eds) Deformation and Fracture Behaviour of Polymers. Engineering Materials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04556-5_8

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