ISSN:
0098-1273
Keywords:
Physics
;
Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Physics
Notes:
Crazing was investigated in two commercial polystyrene/polybutadiene block copolymers made by the Phillips Petroleum Co. and marketed under the trade names of KRO-1 and KRO-3 resins. The two block copolymers each with 23% polybutadiene (PB), have radically different microstructure and radically different crazing behavior, leading to strains to fracture of 0.1 and 1.0, respectively. Of these, the KRO-1 Resin has a phase microstructure that consists of randomly wavy and often interconnected rods of PB of 20 nm diameter surrounded by polystyrene (PS). The microstructure of KRO-3 Resin consists of lamellae of PB with 20 nm thickness and large aspect ratio which range in packing from regular aligned lamellar domains with randomly varying misorientation in the annealed material, to randomly corrugated and wavy sheets in the as-received material. Crazes in KRO-1 Resin have well delineated planar shapes with a conventional, tufty craze matter structure which suggests growth by the now well-established meniscus instability mechanism proposed by one of us. In KRO-3 Resin, on the other hand, crazing involves profuse cavitation if the PB lamellae, giving rise to less well delineated zones of cavitational growth dispersed over the volume and suggests a mechanism of craze growth by stable, interfacial cavitational degradation in a process zone ahead of the craze tip. The measured stress and temperature dependences of craze velocities in these two polymers is in partial support of the suggested mechanisms which are also developed in outline.
Additional Material:
16 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pol.1981.180190207
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