Plastic Flow in Oriented Glassy Polymers

Abstract A manufactured product often possesses residual texture which was either incidentally or deliberately acquired during its processing history. This is particularly true for the case of polymers, where the ability to easily preferentially preorient the material in specific directions is exploited in order to obtain a higher strength product. Specific examples include synthetic fibers, and biaxially-oriented films and containers. The response of the preoriented/textured product to normal service life loading conditions will differ considerably from that of a product composed of isotropic material. This paper addresses the issue of the effects of texture on the deformation behavior of glassy polymers. Here, the physically-based constitutive model of Boyce, Parks, and Argon describing the rate, temperature, and pressure dependent inelastic deformation of initially isotropic glassy polymers is used to model the effects of preorientation (i.e., initial texture), via the use of appropriate initial conditions on internal state variables. The model is then utilized in an analysis of the effects of texture on the yield of glassy polymers and the shear localization which normally follows yielding in oriented polymers. These results are compared with trends found in experiments as reported in the literature. The effectiveness of the proposed model for the present application is also compared with earlier models of yielding of anisotropic materials such as Hill's criterion.

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