总结: | Plasticised and unplasticised poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) are used as engineering materials in many applications where they may be subjected to impact loading leading to high strain rate deformation at a variety of temperatures. It is therefore necessary to study the mechanical responses of these and similar materials over a range of loading conditions, especially as they exhibit strong rate and temperature dependence, and could include a low temperature brittle transition. In this paper, a model of the mechanical response of a PVC with 20 wt% plasticiser and one with no plasticiser is applied over a wide range of strain rates and strains and shown to have excellent agreement with experiments conducted in a previous study. As it is challenging to obtain high rate data on rubbery materials using conventional apparatus, such as the split-Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB), an alternative approach is presented based on a novel modelling framework, which uses the time–temperature superposition principle and is fully calibrated using quasi-static experiments at different temperatures.
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