Micro-Macro Scale Relationship in Creep Deformation of Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene

Bi-Jin Xiong; Zhen-Xian Chen; Jian Kang

doi:10.1007/s10118-021-2628-6

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Micro-Macro Scale Relationship in Creep Deformation of Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene

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- Micro-Macro Scale Relationship in Creep Deformation of Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene
- Chinese Journal of Polymer Science Vol. 39, Issue 12, Pages: 1665-1672(2021)
- Affiliations：
  
  a.Key Laboratory of Materials Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (HUST) of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, China
  b.State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Polymer Research Institute of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
- Author bio：
  
  bjxiong@hust.edu.cn (B.J.X.)
  jiankang@scu.edu.cn (J.K.)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s10118-021-2628-6
  CLC：
- Received：28 March 2021，
  
  Revised：2021-5-9，
  
  Accepted：28 June 2021，
  
  Online First：20 August 2021，
  
  Published：18 October 2021
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Xiong, B. J.; Chen, Z. X.; Kang, J. Micro-macro scale relationship in creep deformation of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2021, 39, 1665–1672

Bi-Jin Xiong, Zhen-Xian Chen, Jian Kang. Micro-Macro Scale Relationship in Creep Deformation of Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2021, 39(12): 1665-1672.
Xiong, B. J.; Chen, Z. X.; Kang, J. Micro-macro scale relationship in creep deformation of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2021, 39, 1665–1672 DOI： 10.1007/s10118-021-2628-6.

Bi-Jin Xiong, Zhen-Xian Chen, Jian Kang. Micro-Macro Scale Relationship in Creep Deformation of Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2021, 39(12): 1665-1672. DOI： 10.1007/s10118-021-2628-6.

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Abstract

Macroscopic and microscale creep deformations of UHMWPE were investigated by using

in situ

SAXS. A methodology for the measurement of the local creep deformation of inter-lamellar amorphous phase has been proposed. The local strain of inter-lamellar amorphous phase (

$$ {\varepsilon }_{\rm{a}} $$

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) and macroscopic strain (

$$ {\varepsilon }_{\rm{macro}} $$

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) were evaluated and they were compared to study the relationship between macroscopic and microscale creep deformation of UHMWPE. Both of them exhibit two deformation regions against creep time. The entanglements show a strong impact on both the macroscopic and local inter-lamellar amorphous phase creep behavior and they can be well correlated to the molecular weight between two entanglements estimated from strain-hardening modulus. Compared to the macroscopic creep deformation

local inter-lamellar amorphous layers have a smaller creep deformation. From the local creep measurement

the apparent modulus of inter-lamellar amorphous phase can also be estimated (200

500 MPa). These values are much higher than the Young’s modulus of bulk amorphous PE

which can be well explained by the confinement of the lamellar stacks and the enhancement of the amorphous phase with the relatively high concentration of entanglements. This study provides a useful means and quantitative data for achieving the scale transition between the micro and the macro structural levels for the study of viscos-elastic deformation.

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