Fig. 8: Rate effects in dissipation and damage. | Communications Physics

Fig. 8: Rate effects in dissipation and damage.

From: Mechanical cooperation between time-dependent and covalent bonds in molecular damage of polymer networks

Fig. 8

a The energy dissipated due to irreversible rupture of permanent chains ΣUr as a function of the Weissenberg number for three levels of permanent bond fractions (black, blue, and red corresponding to p = 0.42, 0.58, 0.7 respectively). b The bulk energy dissipated due to reversible dissociation of dynamic bonds as a function of the Weissenberg number. c The normalized damage Σ/ΣLT versus Weissenberg number. The gray horizontal dashed line shows the Lake-Thomas threshold.

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