Dynamic behavior fatigue analysis

Work by Schapery, Saxena, Wilhams, and others details the analysis of cracks in creeping, strain rate dependent materials, and provides a predictive basis for the apparently brittle nature of FCP in UHMWPE [43-48]. Particularly usefid are the models developed by Schapery and Wilhams, which directly link the intrinsic, constitutive viscoelastic relaxation behavior of the material to the advance of a stable crack tip [46,48]. The power of these models is the predictive nature of the mechanics in relating ECP dynamics to the material s viscoelastic behavior that is eashy measured in a simple one-dimensional creep test The elementary consequences of the models result in the static mode fatigue crack propagation behavior that is observed in UHMWPE, and thus potentially provide a first-principles explanation of the fatigue and fracture behavior by the material. 

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