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Brittle fracture of polymer transient networks

Srishti Arora
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A. Shabbir
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O. Hassager
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Christian Ligoure

Résumé

We study the fracture of reversible double transient networks, constituted of water suspensions of entangled surfactant wormlike micelles reversibly linked by various amounts of telechelic polymers. We provide a state diagram that delineates the regime of fracture without necking of the filament from the regime where no fracture or break-up has been observed. We show that filaments fracture when stretched at a rate larger than the inverse of the slowest relaxation time of the networks. We quantitatively demonstrate that dissipation processes are not relevant in our experimental conditions and that, depending on the density of nodes in the networks, fracture occurs in the linear viscoelastic regime or in a non-linear regime. In addition, analysis of the crack opening profiles indicates deviations from a parabolic shape close to the crack tip for weakly connected networks. We demonstrate a direct correlation between the amplitude of the deviation from the parabolic shape and the amount of non linear viscoelasticity.

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hal-01636998 , version 1 (17-11-2017)

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Srishti Arora, A. Shabbir, O. Hassager, Christian Ligoure, Laurence Ramos. Brittle fracture of polymer transient networks. Journal of Rheology, 2017, 61 (6), pp.1267-1275. ⟨10.1122/1.4997587⟩. ⟨hal-01636998⟩
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