Experimental and Numerical Study on the Viscoelastic Property of Polycarbonate near Glass Transition Temperature for Micro Thermal Imprint Process

열방식 마이크로 임프린트 공정을 위한 고분자 재료의 수치적 모델링

  • Published : 2009.05.07

Abstract

The aim of this research is to obtain a numerical material model for an amorphous glassy polymer, polycarbonate (PC), which can be used in finite element analysis (FEA) of the micro thermal imprint process near the glass transition temperature. An understanding of the deformation behavior of the PC specimens was acquired by performing tensile stress relaxation tests. The viscoelastic material model based on generalized Maxwell model was introduced for the material near Tg to establish the FE model based on the commercial FEA code ABAQUS/Standard with a suitable set of parameters obtained for this material model from the test data. Further validation of the model and parameters was performed by comparing the analysis of FE model results to the experimental data.

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