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Pressure sensitive flow and constraint factor in amorphous materials below glass transition

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The constraint factor, C (given by the hardness-yield strength ratio H/Y in the fully plastic regime of indentation), in metallic glasses, is greater than three, a reflection of the sensitivity of their plastic flow to pressure. Furthermore, C increases with increasing temperature. In this work, we examine if this is true in amorphous polymers as well, through experiments on amorphous poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA). Uniaxial compression as well as spherical indentation tests were conducted in the 248–348 K range to construct H/Y versus indentation strain plots at each temperature and obtain the C-values. Results show that C increases with temperature in PMMA as well. Good correlation between the loss factors, measured using a dynamic mechanical analyzer, and C, suggest that the enhanced sensitivity to pressure is possibly due to β-relaxation. We offer possible mechanistic reasons for the observed trends in amorphous materials in terms of relaxation processes.

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    K. Eswar Prasad, V. Keryvin & U. Ramamurty

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Prasad, K.E., Keryvin, V. & Ramamurty, U. Pressure sensitive flow and constraint factor in amorphous materials below glass transition. Journal of Materials Research 24, 890–897 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2009.0113

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