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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Polymer Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering

Background:

  • Designing plastic components requires understanding material-specific strain limits for accurate structural-mechanical calculations.
  • Current design methods often simplify by only considering linear viscoelastic deformations, potentially limiting lightweight construction potential.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a novel method for determining the strain limit in elastomeric polyurethane systems.
  • To enable improved component design by accounting for nonlinear viscoelastic deformations.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized quasi-static loading/unloading cycles with recovery phases.
  • Employed standardized tensile and simple shear test specimens with a dynamic mechanical thermal analyser (DMTA).
  • Determined strain limit using the residual energy ratio, evaluating hysteresis in load-unload cycles.

Main Results:

  • The residual energy ratio successfully detected evolving energy loss under increasing load.
  • This evolution was correlated to a characteristic strain, identified as a key dimensioning parameter.
  • The method accounts for the reversibility of deformation in determining the strain limit.

Conclusions:

  • The developed method provides a more accurate strain limit for elastomeric polyurethanes compared to simplified approaches.
  • This allows for enhanced lightweight design and optimized utilization of material properties in component engineering.
  • The residual energy ratio serves as a reliable indicator for characterizing nonlinear viscoelastic behavior and establishing design parameters.