Abstract
AbstractEthylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDM) was polymerized to provide specimens suitable for three‐point bending tests. Fracture surfaces were generally similar to those reported previously for relatively brittle materials such as silicate glasses. Attention was concentrated on linear features which lay in roughly parallel arrays in the direction of crack propagation. Generally the features had a circular cross section which, in a few cases, tapered to a fine point. In other cases partially detached features were observed to have an irregular radius of curvature. The two preceding observations were interpreted as evidence of localized plastic deformation. The linear arrays of surface features were explained by adoption of Preston's mechanism for formation of “stries” in brittle materials. However, this mechanism calls for a characteristic cross section which in the case of poly(EGDM) was replaced by a circular cross section. To account for this difference, localized plastic deformation was invoked.
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