Building a phenomenological chain-level understanding of mechanics of semicrystalline polymers: 1. Experimental

• Published in: Polymer (Guilford) Vol. 274; p. 125878
• Main Authors: Smith, Travis, Gupta, Chaitanya, Siavoshani, Asal Y., Wang, Shi-Qing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 02.05.2023

The current understanding of mechanical behavior of semicrystalline polymers (SCPs) is insufficient even at a qualitative level. Since a disproportional extent of efforts have been made to describe yielding rather than brittle fracture or lack of drawability in SCPs, we have avoided basic questions...