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Thermo-mechanics of Polymers at Extreme and Failure Conditions: Influence of Strain Rate and Temperature

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Polymeric materials are increasingly receiving scientific and industrial interest due to the new advances in 3D printing techniques and the possibility to introduce smart responses under external stimuli. Among the industrial sectors, we find interesting applications for biomedical devices, aeronautical components, or smart structures for soft robotics. Regarding the mechanical behavior of these materials, this is rather complex combining nonlinear large deformations, strain rate and temperature dependences, and viscoelastic and viscoplastic responses. When these materials are manufactured by 3D printing techniques or when they include stimuli-responsive particles embedded, their mechanical response becomes even more complex presenting anisotropy and physically coupled effects. All these dependences together make the modelling of their mechanical deformation and failure extremely difficult. This chapter aims at providing the background on the main mechanical features of thermoplastic polymers and the current state of the art in their constitutive modelling. To this end, we first introduce an overview of the deformation mechanisms of thermoplastic polymers and their principal mechanical dependences. Then, the main failure mechanisms presented by these polymers are discussed along with material dependences on brittle-to-ductile transitions. Finally, an extensive review of the state of the art in the modelling of thermoplastic polymers is provided.

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge support from Programa de Apoyo a la Realización de Proyectos Interdisciplinares de I+D para Jóvenes Investigadores de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Comunidad de Madrid (project: BIOMASKIN_CM-UC3M), and from Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Agencia Estatal de Investigación y Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (RTI2018-094318-B-I00). D. Garcia-Gonzalez acknowledges support from the Talent Attraction grant (CM 2018 - 2018-T2/IND-9992) from the Comunidad de Madrid.

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    Daniel Garcia-Gonzalez, Sara Garzon-Hernandez & Angel Arias

  2. Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Aeronáutica y del Espacio, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Daniel Barba

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Garcia-Gonzalez, D., Garzon-Hernandez, S., Barba, D., Arias, A. (2022). Thermo-mechanics of Polymers at Extreme and Failure Conditions: Influence of Strain Rate and Temperature. In: Voyiadjis, G.Z. (eds) Handbook of Damage Mechanics . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60242-0_67

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