Cracks and Crazes: On calculating the macroscopic fracture energy of glassy polymers from molecular simulations
arXiv:cond-mat/0112006 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.148304
Abstract
We combine molecular dynamics simulations of deformations at the submicron scale with a continuum fracture mechanics calculation for the onset of crack propagation to predict the macroscopic fracture toughness of amorphous glassy polymers. Key ingredients in this multiscale approach are the elastic properties of polymer crazes and the stress at which craze fibrils fail through chain pullout or scission. Our results are in quantitative agreement with dimensionless ratios that describe experimental polymers and their variation with temperature, polymer length and polymer rigidity.
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