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A continuum theory of amorphous solids undergoing large deformations, with application to polymeric glasses

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dc.creator Anand, Lallit
dc.date 2003-11-10T19:24:07Z
dc.date 2003-11-10T19:24:07Z
dc.date 2003-01
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-09T02:31:50Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-09T02:31:50Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-09
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3660
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/1721
dc.description This paper summarizes a recently developed continuum theory for the elastic-viscoplastic deformation of amorphous solids such as polymeric and metallic glasses. Introducing an internal-state variable that represents the local free-volume associated with certain metastable states, we are able to capture the highly non-linear stress-strain behavior that precedes the yield-peak and gives rise to post-yield strain-softening. Our theory explicitly accounts for the dependence of the Helmholtz free energy on the plastic deformation in a thermodynamically consistent manner. This dependence leads directly to a backstress in the underlying flow rule, and allows us to model the rapid strain-hardening response after the initial yield-drop in monotonic deformations, as well as the Bauschinger-type reverse-yielding phenomena typically observed in amorphous polymeric solids upon unloading after large plastic deformations. We have implemented a special set of constitutive equations resulting from the general theory in a finite-element computer program. Using this finite-element program, we apply the specialized equations to model the large-deformation response of the amorphous polymeric solid polycarbonate, at ambient temperature and pressure. We show numerical results to some representative problems, and compare them against corresponding results from physical experiments.
dc.description Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA)
dc.format 211086 bytes
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en_US
dc.relation Advanced Materials for Micro- and Nano-Systems (AMMNS);
dc.subject amorphous solids
dc.subject metallic glasses
dc.subject plasticity
dc.subject polymeric glasses
dc.title A continuum theory of amorphous solids undergoing large deformations, with application to polymeric glasses
dc.type Article


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