Abstract
This study is concerned with the temperature and molecular weight dependenceof the strain-hardening behavior of polycarbonate. It is shown that the strain-hardening modulus reduces with increasing temperature and decreasing molecularweight. This result is interpreted in terms of temperature accelerated relaxationof the entanglement network. Moreover, it is shown that frozen-in orientations, in-duced by homogeneous deformations above the glass transition temperature, leadto anisotropic yield behavior that can be fully rationalized (and modelled) in termsof a superimposed stress contribution of the pre-strained network.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2041-2049 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics |
Volume | 42 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2004 |