Abstract
The yielding behavior of glassy polymers may be sensitive to the hydrostatic pressure and also be influenced by the strain rate. Thus, the yield strength is a function of hydrostatic pressure and strain rate instead of a constant. In this paper, using dimensional analysis and finite element simulations, we established a method to estimate the yield strength of glassy polymers by instrumented indentation. Together with the method for determining shear creep compliance proposed in our previous work, the viscoelastic-plastic properties of glassy polymers can be extracted from a single indentation load-depth curve. Applications were illustrated on unplasticized polyvinyl chloride (UPVC). The shear creep compliance and yield strength of UPVC were successfully determined by a single indentation test. Using these parameters, the true stress–strain curves of UPVC under different strain rates were approximately predicted according to a linear viscoelastic-perfectly plastic constitutive description.
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