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Fracture and Toughness
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Stress-strain Behavior of Polymers
Brittle
Plastic
Highly elastic
Do not like ceramics and metals, polymer materials exhibit Various stress-strain behaviors, ranging from very brittle to highly
deformableModulus of elasticity ~7MPa to 4GPa.Plastic elongation can be >100%
very sensitive characteristics to strain rate, temperature, chemical
environment
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The area under the stress-strain curve is a measure of the
toughness and has units of energy per unit volume.
The tensile toughness, therefore, is an indication of the
energy that a material can absorb before breaking.
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Brittle Polymer
-Fracture in a brittle manner, eg Polystyrene or other glassy thermoplastics- In PS, the fracture and crack propagation occurs in the form ofcraze
CRAZE , under electron microscope reveals: load-bearing fibrils about
20 nm in diameter span the gap between the surface of the polymer.
Craze
Fibril
Molecular entanglements are essential, without them, there would be little to
stabilize the loaded fibrils If the polymer chains are too short to form effective entanglements, the material
is fragile
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Plastics - ductile or brittle
Whether a polymer is ductile or brittle in any given circumstancedepend its resistance
to yield, and to crazing and subsequent crack propagation
In thermoset, such as epoxy resin, the cross-linked resins show little yielding
under any conditions because the molecular network is unable to deform
sufficiently
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Increase Fracture resistance:
rubber modificationadd between 5 to 20% to form a small particles, between 0.1 to 5m
- rubber particles have low moduli, and therefore act as stress concentrators.
Problem with crazing-certain level of craze formation renders the component unserviceable- visibility is reduce in PMMA helicopter cabins- porosity can be a problem in ABS pipe
Crazing is precursor to fracture in a large number of polymers
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Fracture Mechanics
Failure is inhibited by energy-absorbing processes around the crack tip.
- unable to relieve the stress concentration or other mechanisms of
crack blunting.
A crack will spread only if the total energy of the system is lowered thereby
NEED to examine the change in the total internal energy of the system as the
crack begins to spread
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Brittle Solids fracture because the applied stress is amplified by
minute cracks. This crack occur naturally as a result of fabrication, solidification,
fatigue damage etc. This cracks are termed Griffith cracks.
Consider a thin sheet of thickness B and infinite width containinga sharp crack of length 2a transverse to a tensile stress applied byFixed grips.
The total energy of the system:
1. The elastic strain
2. The work of crack formation
2aB
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Elastic strain energyThe elastic strain energy per unit volume is
E is Youngs modulus.
o volume V of specimen, the total strain energy is
- the net effect of the insertion of a crack is a lowering of the
total strain energy of the sheet by
E
Ba22
+E2
2
+ E
V
2
2
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Work of Crack Formation
The work done per unit area of crack surface is GcAssume that no heat is dissipated
The total work of crack formation:
crack area x Gc= 2aBGc
The change in energy by the crack is
U = - (1)
Note: the crack spreads
AND the negative sign implies that the elastic strain energy
decrease.
caBGE
Ba
2
22
+
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The dependence ofU on a is shown in graph.
U
Ua
- (2B/E) a2
(2BGc)a
am
At small a the term linear in a dominates: it is positive and representsthe increase in the work of crack formation as the crack spreads
At large a the term in a2 dominates: it is negative and represents the
diminution in total strain energy as the crack spreads.
ais a central crack
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The crack is on the point of growth under stress , thework of crack propagation balances the decrease in
elastic strain energy;
(2)
Therefore:
(3)
This point is represent by the maximum in the U vs a plot which isstable at
(4)
( )C
aBGda
d
E
Ba
da
d2
22
=
2
c
m
EGa =
ma
cEGa =
2
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Foraabove amdU/da is negative, as a increases U
decreases- the total energy of the system decreases andthe crack will spread catastrophically.
a below amdU/da is positive, crack will not spread
because Uincreases with crack size.
If the stress is increased from zero, the fracture stressF is
F = (EGc/a)1/2 (plane-stress) (5)
Is known as Griffith equation.
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Gcis known as the fracture energy.
A more useful parameter is the plane-stress intensityfactorKc, which is defined as (for a wide sheet)
Kc =F (a)1/2 (plane-stress) (6)
From eq. 5 and 6 :
Kc = (EGc)1/2 (7)
The use of Kc to determine whether or not a given thin sheet willfracture under a stress implies that the size of the largest crack inthe sheet is known to designer.
The the stress intensity factorK=F (a)1/2
The crack will not spread for K < Kc
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Kc = (EGc)1/2(plane-stress)
Kc =F (a)1/2 (plane-stress)
The the stress intensity factorK=F (a)1/2
The crack will not spread for K < Kc
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Example 1
A sharp, central crack of length 60 mm in a wide, thin sheet of a glassy
plastic commences to propagate at F = 3.26 MPa.(a) CalculateKc
;
(b) Calculate Gc given that E=3GPa;
(c) Will a crack of length 5 mm in a similar sheet fracture under = 20 MPa ?
Answer
(a) Kc =F (a)1/2 = 3.26 ( x x 60 x 10-3)1/2 = 1.00 MPa m1/2
(b) = (106)2/3 X 109 = 333J/m2
(c) K= (a)1/2
E
KG
c
c
2
=
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