Three different rheological models are applied to the study of transient and residual thermal stresses in amorphous polymers cooled across the glass transition. The models differ mainly in their treatments of the nonequilibrium (time-dependent) portion of the morphological changes in the polymer and their influence on the relaxation process. The interstitial volume between polymer chains (free volume) is found to play an important role in the residual stresses; they are affected by the relative time scale of thermal diffusion and thermoviscoelastic relaxation/creep. This result has implications for injection molded parts of different section dimensions and for extrusion products. This fact must also be accounted for in determining the thermomechanicalproperties in the glass transition range. The step cooling ofPVAc spheres (1 and 20 mm dia.) and a cylinder (20 mm dia.) have been considered; most of the results presented apply to the sphere(s). Residual stresses can vary by as much as 100percent depending on whether the interstitial molecular (free) volume is counted or not. It is also demonstrated that residual stresses can be higher than an elastic analysis based on the glassy properties would suggest; thus the “stressfree temperature” is found to be significantly above the glass transition.
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June 1992
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Thermal Stresses in Nonlinearly Viscoelastic Solids
Giancarlo U. Losi,
Giancarlo U. Losi
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
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Wolfgang G. Knauss
Wolfgang G. Knauss
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
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Giancarlo U. Losi
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
Wolfgang G. Knauss
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
J. Appl. Mech. Jun 1992, 59(2S): S43-S49
Published Online: June 1, 1992
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October 16, 1990
Revised:
May 24, 1991
Online:
March 31, 2008
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Losi, G. U., and Knauss, W. G. (June 1, 1992). "Thermal Stresses in Nonlinearly Viscoelastic Solids." ASME. J. Appl. Mech. June 1992; 59(2S): S43–S49. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2899506
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