Abstract
This article reports initial results of an investigation whose aim is to characterize fatigue damage induced in semicrystalline polymers subjected to uniaxial high cycle fatigue. Herein we report results obtained from fatiguing tensile bars of high molecular weight compression-molded alpha-phase iPP. Samples were fatigued for up to one million cycles at a frequency of 2 Hz. During fatigue, in situ measurements of dynamic mechanical response and energy densities were recorded. Postmortem morphological studies were also conducted using SEM of etched surfaces and TOM. The results show that damage formation occurs in a regularly spaced array of crazes. This damage, its evolution, and energetics are discussed as they relate to the overall fatigue life of the material. A methodology to isolate the energy consumption for the formation of a single craze is given. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci B: Polym Phys 36: 2751–2760, 1998
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