24h Creep Test of PE1000 Material at Elevated Temperatures

24h Creep Test of PE1000 Material at Elevated Temperatures

Bogusz Paweł, Grzeszczuk Wojciech

Abstract. Plastics, also referred to as polymeric materials, are among basic groups of engineering materials. Creep in plastics, generally, results from the chains straightening, their relative to each other and orientation in the acting force direction. The main factors initiating the occurrence of the rheological phenomena are load and temperature. A wide range of the plastic materials applications includes elements exposed to long-term loads and working at elevated temperatures, which leads to conduct rheological tests. The UHMW (ultra-high molecular weight) type PE1000 polyethylene, in the form of a 4 mm thick plate was tested experimentally. A test program was established using three creep constitutive function variables: temperature, load and time. The maximum duration of the tests was set to 24 hours. Three temperature values, 22°C, 42°C and 90°C, were chosen based on the characteristics of the material. Loading values at creep were selected based on the static tensile tests, which were carried out for each given temperature. The reference point was the material strength of the polyethylene at a given temperature. The samples were stressed with seven multipliers of the ultimate strength, from 0.9 to 0.4, at a given temperature. Creep curves, creep parameters as well as mechanical strength properties of the tested PE1000 material for various stress levels and temperatures were obtained. A temperature increase degrades the strength and creep parameters of the material.

Keywords
Polyethylene, Creep Tests, Mechanical Properties, Experimental Mechanics

Published online 5/25/2019, 10 pages
Copyright © 2019 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA

Citation: Bogusz Paweł, Grzeszczuk Wojciech, 24h Creep Test of PE1000 Material at Elevated Temperatures, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 12, pp 9-18, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644900215-2

The article was published as article 2 of the book Experimental Mechanics of Solids

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