Abstract

Uniaxial tensile creep tests at various applied stresses were carried out to demonstrate that PP is nonlinear viscoelastic. A novel phenomenological model consisting of springs, dashpots, stress-locks and sliders was proposed to describe the nonlinear viscoelasticity. Indentation creep tests at different applied load levels were also performed on nonlinear viscoelastic PP. It was found that the shear creep compliance varies with the applied load level when the applied load is less than 5 mN, which means the indentation creep behavior was nonlinear. To find the real reason for the nonlinearity in indentation creep tests, the elastic modulus at various indentation depths was measured using continuous stiffness measurements (CSM). By analyzing the variation of elastic modulus with indentation depth, the nonlinearity of indentation creep behavior was proved to be caused by the non-uniform properties in the surface of the specimen rather than nonlinear viscoelasticity.

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