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Phenomenological models for the isothermal physical aging of PEEK
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Hermida, Elida Beatriz; Arenas, Claudio Daniel; Phenomenological models for the isothermal physical aging of PEEK; Elsevier; Heliyon; 4; 12; 12-2018; 1-14
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Hermida, Elida Beatriz
Arenas, Claudio Daniel
Resumen
Creep test is a useful tool to study thermal aging and deformation mechanisms of semi-crystalline polymers, such as polyether-ether-ketone (PEEK). Hou and Chen proposed a power law to fit creep data of PEEK aged at different temperatures and the master curve built from those data. This paper attempts to complement that analysis by introducing Kohlrausch function as an alternative to the fractional Maxwell's model associated to the power law. Although the fitting of experimental data and the mathematical conditions imposed to equations that describe curves that can be superimposed by translations, are obeyed by both models, this paper demonstrates that Kohlrausch function provides a better phenomenological description of the creep response of PEEK due to the physical interpretation of the fitting parameters and their dependence on the aging time and temperature. Fil: Hermida, Elida Beatriz. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Escuela de Ciencia y Tecnología; Argentina Fil: Arenas, Claudio Daniel. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Instituto Sabato; Argentina. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica; Argentina