著者

東藤 貢 高橋 清 JAR BenP.Y. BEGUELIN Philippe

出版者

一般社団法人日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学會論文集. A編 (ISSN:03875008)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.65, no.631, pp.432-438, 1999-03-25

参考文献数

21

被引用文献数

1 1

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Toughening mechanisms of three types of rubber toughened poly (methyl methacrylate) (RT-PMMA) were investigated under mode I loading condition by optical and electron microscopies in conjunction with the quantitative evaluation of mode I fracture toughness. Polarized optical microscopy clearly exhibited damage zone development ahead of a crack-tip of the RT-PMMAs. The three RT-PMMAs revealed different shapes of the damage zone. Transmission electron microscopy exhibited microcrazes nucleated in the equator of rubber particles within the damage zones. Extensive deformation of rubber particles corresponding to localized shear yielding of the PMMA matrix was also found in a region close to a propagating crack-tip. In addition, cavitation of rubber particles was observed in the vicinity of the crack. It is therefore understood that the toughening of the RT-PMMAs is due to energy dissipation caused by the microdamage formations such as microcrazing, matrix shear deformation and rubber particle cavitation ahead of the crack-tip.