Tensile anisotropic

Specimen thickness Anisotropic tensile Anisotropic flexural... 

Biaxial Orientation. Many polymer films require orientation to achieve commercially acceptable performance (10). Orientation may be uniaxial (generally in the machine direction [MD]) or biaxial where the web is stretched or oriented in the two perpendicular planar axes. The biaxial orientation may be balanced or unbalanced depending on use, but most preferably is balanced. Further, this balance of properties may relate particularly to tensile properties, tear properties, optical birefringence, thermal shrinkage, or a combination of properties. A balanced film should be anisotropic, although this is difficult to achieve across the web of a flat oriented film. 

The measurement of mechanical properties is a major part of the domain of characterisation. The tensile test is the key procedure, and this in turn is linked with the various tests to measure fracture toughness... crudely speaking, the capacity to withstand the weakening effects of defects. Elaborate test procedures have been developed to examine resistance to high-speed impact of projectiles, a property of civil (birdstrike on aircraft) as well as military importance. Another kind of lest is needed to measure the elastic moduli in different directions of an anisotropic crystal this is, for instance, vital for the proper exploitation of quartz crystal slices in quartz watches. 

In addition to specific properties of interest for a particular application of a material, its elasticity, compressive and tensile strength, deformability, hardness, wear-resistance, brittleness and cleavability also determine whether an application is possible. No matter how good the electric, magnetic, chemical or other properties are, a material is of no use if it does not fulfill mechanical requirements. These depend to a large extent on the structure and on the kind of chemical bonding. Mechanical properties usually are anisotropic, i.e. they depend on the direction of the applied force. 

The continuous chain model includes a description of the yielding phenomenon that occurs in the tensile curve of polymer fibres between a strain of 0.005 and 0.025 [ 1 ]. Up to the yield point the fibre extension is practically elastic. For larger strains, the extension is composed of an elastic, viscoelastic and plastic contribution. The yield of the tensile curve is explained by a simple yield mechanism based on Schmid s law for shear deformation of the domains. This law states that, for an anisotropic material, plastic deformation starts at a critical value of the resolved shear stress, ry =/g, along a slip plane. It has been... 

Polypropylene and polyethylene microporous films obtained by this method are available from Cel-gard48.5o,54,55 Ube. The dry process is technologically convenient because no solvents are required. However, only a uniaxial stretching method has been successful to date, and as a result, the pores are slitlike in shape and the mechanical properties of films are anisotropic. The tensile strength in the lateral direction is relatively low. 

A criterion has been developed based on the tensile normal stress and the anisotropic tensile strength on arbitrary planes about the crack tip. It is assumed that the crack grows along the plane on which the stress ratio is maximum (Buezek and Herakovich, 1985). A maximum stress criterion is also proposed (Gupta et al., 1993) for a crack which deflects along the interface... 

The tensile strength of materials is dependent on the treatment and form of the material. Thus, the tensile strength of isotropic bulk nylon-6,6 is less than that of anisotropic oriented nylon-6,6 fiber. Inorganics and metals also form fibers and whiskers with varying tensile strengths (Table 14.1). Fibers are generally less crystalline and larger than whiskers. 

This, too, is the simple rule of mixtures of Eq. (5.82) applied to modulus. Care must be exercised to use the correct fiber modulus, Ei in the case of anisotropic fibers such as carbon and Kevlar . In Eq. (5.88), it is the axial tensile modulus that must be used. The second term in Eq. (5.88) usually makes only a small contribution, since Except at very low fiber volume fractions, Ei is then given to a good approximation by... 

In all cases the anisotropic polymerization mixtures (10% by weight) could be used directly in the formation of dry-jet wet-spun fibers. Monofilament fibers were obtained by coagulation in water, tension dried at 150 °C and heat treated at 500-600 °C with a 30s residence time. The best fibers were obtained from the high molecular weight PBZT polymer (VII) which exhibited modulus values that ranged between 172 GPa and 207 GPa and tenacity values up to 2.4 GPa. Unfortunately, the compressive property as measured by the tensile recoil test was only 380 MPa, showing only a slight improvement over PBZT. 

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