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Development of an internal state variable model to describe the mechanical behavior of amorphous polymer and its application to impact testing

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Time Dependent Constitutive Behavior and Fracture/Failure Processes, Volume 3

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The use of lighter and impact resistant materials, such as polymers, in vehicular systems is an important motivation for the automotive industry as these materials would make vehicles more fuel-efficient without compromising safety standards. In general, polymers exhibit a rich variety of material behavior originating from their particular microstructural (long molecular chains) behavior that is strongly temperature, pressure, and time dependent. To capture such intricate behavior, a number of polymer constitutive models have been proposed and implemented into finite element codes in an effort to solve complex engineering problems (see [1] for a review of these models). However, developing improved constitutive models for polymers that are physically-based is always a challenging area that has important implications for the design of polymeric structural components.

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Bouvard, J.L., Ward, D., Marin, E.B., Bammann, D., Horstemeyer, M.F. (2011). Development of an internal state variable model to describe the mechanical behavior of amorphous polymer and its application to impact testing. In: Proulx, T. (eds) Time Dependent Constitutive Behavior and Fracture/Failure Processes, Volume 3. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9794-4_13

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