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Abbreviations
- A′, mc :
-
prefactor and exponent of K in crack growth equation
- \(\overline D\) :
-
average craze fibril diameter \(\overline D\)=〈D2〉/〈D〉
- 〈D〉:
-
mean fibril diameter
- 〈D2〉:
-
mean square fibril diameter
- D0 :
-
average fibril spacing as well as average fibril diameter before deformation (diameter of the “phantom” fibril cylinder)
- D0*, ∇σ0*:
-
fibril spacing of fastest growing of craze interface and gradient of hydrostatic stress corresponding to this spacing
- E*:
-
an effective Young's modulus of the polymer which equals Young's modulus for plane stress and E/(1−ν2) for plane strain
- G, G 0N :
-
shear modulus, shear modulus level of the rubbery plateau
- GIc :
-
critical strain energy release rate of crack (fracture toughness)
- K:
-
stress intensity factor for crack
- M:
-
axis of molecular orientation
- M0 :
-
molecular weight of stiff units along chain
- Mc :
-
critical molecular weight below which crazes do not form
- Me :
-
entanglement molecular weight
- Mn, Mn′:
-
number average molecular weights of chains in the glass before crazing and in the craze fibrils respectively
- Mw′:
-
weight average molecular weight of chains in the craze fibrils
- NA :
-
Avogadro's number
- P:
-
probability that there is at least one entangled chain in each entanglement length along a fibril
- Q:
-
SAXS invarient
- R:
-
radius of curvature at craze front
- R:
-
universal gas constant
- S, St :
-
tensile stress on craze surface and at the craze tip respectively averaged over several fibrils
- ΔS(x):
-
self stress of craze necessary to produce its measured displacement profile w(x)
- TA :
-
absolute temperature
- T(x):
-
craze thickness profile
- Tg :
-
glass transition temperature
- U*:
-
activation energy for chain scission
- U:
-
energy needed to break a single primary polymer chain bond
- V:
-
crack growth velocity
- χ:
-
volume fraction of polymer in a blend
- Y:
-
tensile yield stress
- Z:
-
number of entanglement transfer lengths along a fibril
- a:
-
half length of craze (or of crack plus craze)
- ai :
-
initial radius of a penny shaped crack
- c:
-
crack half length
- d:
-
root mean square end-to-end distance of a chain of molecular weight Me, entanglement mesh size
- f:
-
force on a single entangled chain in a fibril
- i(s):
-
scattered X-ray intensity
- k′:
-
Porod's law constant from high angle tail of SAXS intensity
- k0 :
-
rate constant prefactor
- kb :
-
rate of bond scission
- l:
-
entanglement transfer length along fibril
- l0 :
-
average projected length of stiff units along chain
- lact :
-
activation distance
- le :
-
chain contour length between entanglements
- n:
-
non Newtonian flow law exponent
- nc :
-
refractive index of craze
- p:
-
probability that at least one entangled chain is left umbroken in a given entanglement transfer length
- \(\bar p\)(ζ), ζ:
-
Fourier transform of craze selfstress and the transform variable (spatial frequency) ζ
- q:
-
the ratio of entangled chain density before to that after crazing (=ν′E/νE)
- r:
-
radius of curvature of steady state finger at craze tip
- rd :
-
chain disentanglement rate
- s:
-
magnitude of the X-ray scattering vector
- s0 :
-
deviatoric stress
- v:
-
velocity of craze — bulk polymer interface in craze thickening
- w(x):
-
displacement profile of craze interfaces
- x, z:
-
coordinates in craze plane normal to and parallel to the craze front
- 2θ:
-
X-ray scattering angle
- Λ:
-
wave length of sinusoidal perturbation of craze front
- Λc :
-
fastest growing wave length of craze front perturbation
- Λm :
-
minimum wavelength of sinusoidal craze front perturbation that can grow
- Λs :
-
fastest growing spacing of steady state finger structure at craze tip
- Φcraze, Φfilm, Φhole :
-
optical density on TEM micrograph of craze, solid film and hole through film
- Γ:
-
energy to create new surface at craze tip or craze-bulk interface including an energy of primary chain rupture
- α:
-
proportionality constant between finger spacing and finger radius of curvature (r=αΛs)
- α(x):
-
linear dislocation density of continuously distributed dislocations of Burger's vector b necessary to give the same displacement profile as the craze
- γ:
-
van der Waal's surface energy
- \(\dot \varepsilon\) :
-
equivalent tensile strain rate
- \(\dot \varepsilon\)F, σF:
-
material parameter in non-Newtonian flow law \(\dot \varepsilon\)=\(\dot \varepsilon\) F(σ/σF)n
- εc :
-
critical uniaxial strain for crazing
- ζ:
-
amplitude of sinusoidal perturbation of craze front
- λ:
-
extension ratio of craze fibrils relative to undeformed polymer glass
- λDZ :
-
extension ratio of shear deformation zone
- (λmax)∥, (λmax)⊥ :
-
maximum extension ratio of a single entangled chain parallel and prependicular to the preorientation direction
- λmax :
-
maximum extension ratio of a single entangled chain (=le/d)
- λnet :
-
maximum extension ratio of entangled chain network
- λp :
-
extension ratio achieved in uniaxial preorientation above Tg
- λx :
-
X-ray wavelength
- λ∥, λ⊥ :
-
extension ratio measured in craze fibrils grown by applying tensile stress parallel, and perpendicular, to the axis of molecular orientation M
- ν:
-
Poisson's ratio
- νE :
-
density of chains between entanglement junction points
- ν′E :
-
density of chains between entanglement junction points after geometrically necessary entanglement loss
- ν sE , ν dE :
-
density of entangled chains lost by scission or disentanglement respectively when forming a fibril surface
- ϱ:
-
polymer density
- β, β*:
-
coefficient of proportionality between average hydrostatic stress (σ0) and tensile stress S or St at craze interface or craze tip respectively (i.e. (σ0)m=βS; (σ0)m=β*St)
- σ:
-
equivalent tensile stress
- σ0 :
-
hydrostatic stress (negative pressure)
- δσ0 :
-
increment of hydrostatic stress
- ∇σ0, s*:
-
gradient of hydrostatic stress and its sign
- (σ0)m :
-
average hydrostatic stress ahead of craze tip or craze interface
- (σ0)s :
-
hydrostatic stress at the surface of the void “ceiling” between fibrils at craze interface
- (σ0)t :
-
hydrostatic stress at craze void finger tip
- σD :
-
lower yield stress
- σf :
-
true tensile stress in the craze fibrils
- σij :
-
components of stress tensor
- σ∞ :
-
tensile stress normal to the craze at large distances from the craze plane
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Kramer, E.J. (1983). Microscopic and molecular fundamentals of crazing. In: Kausch, H.H. (eds) Crazing in Polymers. Advances in Polymer Science, vol 52-53. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0024055
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