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The post-yield behaviour of low-density polyethylenes

Part 1 Strain hardening

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The post-yield behaviour of linear low-density and high-pressure polymerized low-density polyethylenes have been compared in tension and compression. Rubber elasticity theory has been used to describe the strain-hardening region of the stress-strain curves in terms of extension of amorphous regions and entanglement associated with crystalline regions. The resulting strain-hardening functions were used to predict the geometry of the neck profiles produced while deforming in tension. No relationship between strain hardening and environmental stress-crack resistance was found in that the two types of polyethylenes exhibited very different dependences.

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  1. P. J. Mills

    Present address: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Bard Hall, 14853, Ithaca, New York, USA

  2. R. N. Hayward

    Present address: Farmgate House, 1A Gaddum Road, Bowdon, Cheshire, UK

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  1. Department of Chemistry, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

    P. J. Mills, J. N. Hay & R. N. Hayward

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Mills, P.J., Hay, J.N. & Hayward, R.N. The post-yield behaviour of low-density polyethylenes. J Mater Sci 20, 501–507 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01026519

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