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Constitutive modeling of strain-induced crystallization in filled rubbers
Roozbeh Dargazany1, Vu Ngoc Khiêm2, Emad A Poshtan2
1Department of Continuum Mechanics, RWTH Aachen University, 52062 Aachen, Germany and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
Abstract:
Strain-induced crystallization is a unique crystallization process taking place solely in polymers subjected to large deformations. It plays a major role for reinforcement and improvement of mechanical properties of polymers with a high regularity of the molecular structure. In this paper, we develop a micromechanical model for the strain-induced crystallization in filled rubbers. Accordingly, the strain-induced crystallization is considered as a process triggered by fully stretched and continued by semistretched polymer chains. The model extends the previously proposed network evolution model [Dargazany and Itskov, Int. J. Solids Struct. 46, 2967 (2009)] and can thus, in addition to the stress upturn and evolution of crystallinity, take into account several inelastic features of filled rubbers, such as the Mullins effect, permanent set, and induced anisotropy. Finally, the accuracy of the model is verified against different set of experimental data both with respect to the stress-strain and crystallization-strain relations. The model exhibits good agreement with the experimental results, which, besides its relative simplicity, makes it a good option for finite-element implementations.
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