Slow crack growth (SCG) is a time-dependent quasi-brittle type of failure that polyethylene
(PE) materials exhibit under low stress levels. The interplay between the crack and its plastic …

Most of the stress–strain relationships of thermoplastic polymers for aeronautical composites
tend to be nonlinear and sensitive to strain rate and temperature, so accurate constitutive …

High density polyethylene (HDPE) can show viscoelastic-viscoplastic behaviors under
monotonic loads and a stress softening after reloading under cyclic ones. This sets a …

High temperature design requires accurate constitutive models to describe material inelastic
deformation and failure behavior. Oftentimes, calibrating accurate models devolves into the …

Thermoplastic polymers (TP) are well-suited for thermoforming and injection moulding
processes. Semi-crystalline polymers (SCP) are a specific class of TPs, which partly …

In this contribution, a new design framework leveraging Bayesian optimisation is developed
to enhance the efficiency and quality of material and structural design processes. The …

This paper presents an analysis of the stress evolution of high‐density polyethylene (HDPE)
at loading, relaxation, and recovery stages in a multi‐relaxation‐recovery (RR) test. The …

Semi-crystalline polymers is an important group of materials that is used in a vast array of
products. In this study, the rate-dependent properties of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) …

The present contribution investigates within a hierarchical multi-scale approach the relation
between the macroscopic properties of semi-crystalline poly (vinylidene fluoride)(PVDF) and …

Cyclically loaded styrene-butadiene rubber containing different amounts of carbon-black is
experimentally examined under different pre-stretch levels at room temperature. The …