A study of strain-induced crystallization of polymers Academic Article

abstract

• The response of polymers depends on their morphology. One of the challenges in modeling from a continuum perspective is how to incorporate the microstructural features into the homogenized continuum model. Here, we use a recent framework that associates different natural states and material symmetries with distinct microstructures of the body. We study the problem of strain-induced crystallization of polymeric materials, in particular, we study the problem of uniaxial stretching of polymeric materials and the subsequent crystallization and the predictions of the theory are compared with experimental results.

authors

• Rajagopal, Kumbakonam

published proceedings

• INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Rao, I. J., & Rajagopal, K. R.

citation count

• 88

complete list of authors

• Rao, IJ||Rajagopal, KR

publication date

• February 2001

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

keywords

• Crystallization
• Films
• PET
• Polyethylene Terephthalate
• Polymer
• Stretching
• Viscoelastic

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/S0020-7683(00)00079-2

start page

• 1149

end page

• 1167

volume

• 38

issue

• 6-7

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0020-7683(00)00079-2