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An analysis of micro-hardness and elastic modulus data for different lamellar systems in the light of both eutectoid copolymer and chain folded lamellar microphases is presented. A novel thermodynamically derived expression offering a fair description of hardness (stress required to plastically deform a crystal) of autonomous non-homogeneous microphases in terms of the average crystal thickness, including a defective surface boundary is developed. The present results characterize the mechansim of plastic deformation as primarily governed by the initial mosaic-block structure controlling the “solid state” mechanism underlined. The average dimensions of the remaining blocks after crystal destruction are thus related to the original block dimensions before plastic deformation. Within this context it is shown that the dissipated energy for crystal destruction increases very rapidly with the molar mass-function of crystalline material.
The elastic deformation of these lamellar systems at small strains is correlated to the rubber-like behaviour of the cluster-network. Finally, the role of the average thickness of the non-homogeneous microcrystallites is stressed as describing concurrently the elastic and plastics properties of the polymer allowing a quantitative description of the correlation found between micro-hardness and elastic modulus.
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Dedicated to Professor F. R. Schwarzl on his 60th birthday.
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Baltá-Calleja, E.J., Kilian, H.G. A novel concept in describing elastic and plastic properties of semicrystalline polymers: polyethylene. Colloid & Polymer Sci 263, 697–707 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01422850
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