Article: An irreversible thermodynamic model for semicrystalline polymers submitted to multisequence loading at large strain.

INTRODUCTION

The aim of this work is to contribute to the mechanical behavior simulation of semicrystalline polymers via the distribution of nonlinear relaxation (DNLR) formalism, as developed by Cunat et al. [1-15]. This thermodynamic approach is closely related to the relaxed state concept, which is defined as the result of microstructural evolutions after a loading followed by complete stress relaxation. In other words, this relaxed state is characterized by measuring the stress level when the thermodynamic forces of non-equilibrium, or affinities, become stationary. The affinity concept was first proposed by De Donder [16, 17] (in 1920 and 1936), it was used ...

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