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Characterization of Crazing Behavior in Polystyrene  

Jeon, Dae-Jin (Kumho Tire Co., R&D Center)
Kim, Seok-Ho (Kumho Tire Co., R&D Center)
Kim, Wan-Young (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Chonbuk National University)
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Elastomers and Composites / v.39, no.2, 2004 , pp. 142-152 More about this Journal
Abstract
Tensile tests of two types of injection-molded polystyrene(PS) samples have been carried out over a wide range of temperature and strain rates in order to characterize their crazing behaviors. Mechanical properties were affected by the formation of crazes as well as test variables. Below the brittle-ductile transition temperature, the tensile stress and the ultimate elongation increased with the molecular weight, strain rate, and with decreasing temperature while the number and average length of crazes also increase. The crazing stress increased with molecular weight, strain rate, and with decreasing temperature. However, the dependence was small compared to the tensile stress. The gap between crazing stress and tensile stress which represents time fur craze formation and growth increased with molecular weight, strain rate, and with decreasing temperature. Crazing was activated near the ${\beta}$-relaxation temperature; crazing stress abruptly decreased at this temperature. During the tensile test, the craze density changed exponentially with the applied stress. At the initial stage, crazes formed slowly. Once a certain number of craze formed, however, the craze density increased rapidly. Craze nucleation and growth occur simultaneously.
Keywords
crazing behavior; polystyrene;
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