Abstract
Transient creep recovery tests in simple tension were performed in a series of cross-linked high polymers in pure and plasticized states. A loading cycle was adopted according to which each specimen was loaded in creep for a time period of 16′ followed by recovery for the same time period. This loading cycle was repeated for various steps of temperature from ambient temperature up to a temperature corresponding to the rubbery region of each polymer. It was shown that, while the 15″ measurements of deformation after loading or unloading were approximately equal, recovery individual curves were always lagging in time the corresponding creep curves. Composite curves of creep or recovery deformation in semi-log time scale reduced to a temperature of 30 °C were plotted by applying the method of reduced variables. The creepdeformation composite curve was always advancing in time relatively to the respective recovery composite curve. This phenomenon was an accumulation of the partial difference of the corresponding individual curves.
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