Strain, dimensions

In their study of the NMR T2 and T2 of crosslinked cis-polyisoprene sheets under extension, von Meerwall and Ferguson 65) found that T2 of the rubber had much smaller anisotropy ( magic angle effect) than that of trace penetrants at the same extension ratio X < 3. However, the penetrant diffusion (referred to the strained dimensions) was within experimental error isotropic these findings are equally valid for C6F6 and n-hexadecane as penetrant. The authors concluded that segment orien-... 

One more application area is composite materials where one wants to investigate the 3D structure and/or reaction to external influences. Fig.3a shows a shadow image of a block of composite material. It consists of an epoxy matrix with glass fibers. The reconstructed cross-sections, shown in Fig.3b, clearly show the fiber displacement inside the matrix. The sample can be loaded in situ to investigate the reaction of matrix and fibers to external strain. Also absorption and transmission by liquids can be visualized directly in three-dimensions. This method has been applied to the study of oil absorption in plastic granules and water collection inside artificial plant grounds. 

The elasticity of a fiber describes its abiUty to return to original dimensions upon release of a deforming stress, and is quantitatively described by the stress or tenacity at the yield point. The final fiber quaUty factor is its toughness, which describes its abiUty to absorb work. Toughness may be quantitatively designated by the work required to mpture the fiber, which may be evaluated from the area under the total stress-strain curve. The usual textile unit for this property is mass pet unit linear density. The toughness index, defined as one-half the product of the stress and strain at break also in units of mass pet unit linear density, is frequentiy used as an approximation of the work required to mpture a fiber. The stress-strain curves of some typical textile fibers ate shown in Figure 5. 

Elastic Properties. The abiUty of a fiber to deform under below-mpture loads and to return to its original configuration or dimension upon load removal is an important performance criterion. Permanent deformation may be as detrimental as actual breakage, rendering a product inadequate for further use. Thus, the repeated stress or strain characteristics are of significance in predicting or evaluating functional properties. 

Piezoelectrics. AH ceramics display a slight change ia dimension, or strain, under the appHcation of an electric field. When the iaduced strain is proportional to the square of the field iatensity, it is known as the electrostrictive effect, and is expressed by ... 

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These cover the following topics (a) theoretical methods, with emphasis on the utility of such methods b) molecular dimensions, as determined by X-ray, electron diffraction and microwave spectra (c) molecular spectra, covering NMR, IR, UV, mass and photoelectron spectra [d) thermodynamic aspects, such as stability, ring strain, aromaticity, shape and conformation of saturated and partially saturated rings (c) tautomerism, including prototopic and ring-chain (/) betaine and other unusual structures. 

When an isotropic material is subjected to planar shock compression, it experiences a relatively large compressive strain in the direction of the shock propagation, but zero strain in the two lateral directions. Any real planar shock has a limited lateral extent, of course. Nevertheless, the finite lateral dimensions can affect the uniaxial strain nature of a planar shock only after the edge effects have had time to propagate from a lateral boundary to the point in question. Edge effects travel at the speed of sound in the compressed material. Measurements taken before the arrival of edge effects are the same as if the lateral dimensions were infinite, and such early measurements are crucial to shock-compression science. It is the independence of lateral dimensions which so greatly simplifies the translation of planar shock-wave experimental data into fundamental material property information. 

This is the approximation used in (7.53). Assume that the volumetric strain e is a function of t only i.e., that its spatial variation is negligible over the dimensions of the shear band. 

The parameters for the model were originally evaluated for oil shale, a material for which substantial fracture stress and fragment size data depending on strain rate were available (see Fig. 8.11). In the case of a less well-characterized brittle material, the parameters may be inferred from the shear-wave velocity and a dynamic fracture or spall stress at a known strain rate. In particular, is approximately one-third the shear-wave velocity, m has been shown to be about 6 for various brittle materials (Grady and Lipkin, 1980), and k can then be determined from a known dynamic fracture stress using an analytic solution of (8.65), (8.66) and (8.68) in one dimension for constant strain rate. 

Because strain is dimensionless, the moduli have the same dimensions as those of stress force per unit area (N m ). In those units, the moduli are enormous, so they are usually reported instead in units of GPa. 

One way of measuring thermal shoek resistanee is to drop a piece of the ceramic, heated to progressively higher temperatures, into cold water. The maximum temperature drop AT (in K) which it can survive is a measure of its thermal shock resistance. If its coefficient of expansion is a then the quenched surface layer suffers a shrinkage strain of a AT. But it is part of a much larger body which is still hot, and this constrains it to its original dimensions it then carries an elastic tensile stress EaAT. If this tensile stress exceeds that for tensile fracture, <7js, the surface of the component will crack and ultimately spall off. So the maximum temperature drop AT is given by... 

The allowable dimensional variation (the tolerance) of a polymer part can be larger than one made of metal - and specifying moulds with needlessly high tolerance raises costs greatly. This latitude is possible because of the low modulus the resilience of the components allows elastic deflections to accommodate misfitting parts. And the thermal expansion of polymers is almost ten times greater than metals there is no point in specifying dimensions to a tolerance which exceeds the thermal strains. 

Perhaps the most significant complication in the interpretation of nanoscale adhesion and mechanical properties measurements is the fact that the contact sizes are below the optical limit ( 1 t,im). Macroscopic adhesion studies and mechanical property measurements often rely on optical observations of the contact, and many of the contact mechanics models are formulated around direct measurement of the contact area or radius as a function of experimentally controlled parameters, such as load or displacement. In studies of colloids, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has been used to view particle/surface contact sizes from the side to measure contact radius [3]. However, such a configuration is not easily employed in AFM and nanoindentation studies, and undesirable surface interactions from charging or contamination may arise. For adhesion studies (e.g. Johnson-Kendall-Roberts (JKR) [4] and probe-tack tests [5,6]), the probe/sample contact area is monitored as a function of load or displacement. This allows evaluation of load/area or even stress/strain response [7] as well as comparison to and development of contact mechanics theories. Area measurements are also important in traditional indentation experiments, where hardness is determined by measuring the residual contact area of the deformation optically [8J. For micro- and nanoscale studies, the dimensions of both the contact and residual deformation (if any) are below the optical limit. 

When fracture is confined to a single plane of the lattice, the net solution collapses to the nail solution. Consider an atomically thin slab of dimension V = AL, where A is unit area and L is a bond length, the strain energy stored is U = a AL/lE and the energy dissipated is U = DoE p — / c). The VP model then predicts that Gic o- such that... 

Creep and Recovery Behaviour. Plastics exhibit a time-dependent strain response to a constant applied stress. This behaviour is called creep. In a similar fashion if the stress on a plastic is removed it exhibits a time dependent recovery of strain back towards its original dimensions. This is illustrated in... 

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