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Mechanical properties of polymers containing fillers

✍ Scribed by Zhanjun Gao; Andy H. Tsou


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
256 KB
Volume
37
Category
Article
ISSN
0887-6266

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✦ Synopsis


The addition of fillers can significantly change the mechanical characteristics of a material. In this paper, a general, mechanistic model is established to determine the moduli, relaxation moduli, break strengths, and break strains for polymer films containing liquid and solid micro fillers. Based on rigorous continuum mechanics principles, this model considers the filler/filler interactions, incorporates the nonlinear synergistic effects of fillers, and provides accurate predictions in comparison with experimental data. The analytical model developed provides information that is not available or extremely difficult to obtain experimentally. The model can be applied to determine the filler/matrix adhesion and filler modulus using measured modulus of a filled polymer film (a filled polymer is a polymer containing fillers). It is found that the compression moduli of polymer films containing liquid fillers differ significantly from the tension moduli, especially when the volume fraction of the filler is high. The difference in compression and tension Young's moduli normalized by the tension Young's modulus is as high as 35%. The relative error in maximum pressure calculation during Hertzian contact caused by using the tension moduli is as high as 48%. The relaxation modulus of a filled polymer film is determined through inverse Laplace transforms of its composite modulus in the s-space. For a filled polymer film containing liquid phase fillers, a closed form solution for its relaxation modulus has been obtained. It is found that the composite relaxation modulus of the filled polymer is proportional to the relaxation modulus of the matrix polymer multiplied by a factor related to the volume fraction of the liquid filler. The break strength of the filled polymer is found to be proportional to the break strength of the polymer matrix material multiplied by a power function of the modulus ratio of filled polymer to polymer matrix, R. The break strain of the filled polymer is proportional to the break strain of the polymer matrix multiplied by a power function of 1/R.


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