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doi10.6052/1000-0879-13-442

A REVIEW ON MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF PMMA 1)

DENG Xiaoqiu,
(Institute

ZHAO Longmao,

YAO Xiaohu

of Applied Mechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China)
(Shanxi

(School

LI Zhiqiang,,2)

Key Laboratory of Material Strength and Structural Impact, Taiyuan 030024, China)

of Civil Engineering and Transportation, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China)

Abstract Since PMMA (polymethyl-methacrylate) is an important material used for the aircraft windshield
and canopy, it is necessary to study its mechanical properties. This paper reviews the studies of mechanical
properties of PMMA. Constitutive models on viscoelasticity, inelasticity, yield stress and module related to temperature are summarized. Recent quasi-static and dynamic experiments are discussed, while several examples
in molecular dynamic simulation and finite element analysis are described. The new research directions are
commented.
Key words PMMA (polymethyl-methacrylate), constitutive model, mechanical experiment, numerical simulation

(polymethyl-methacrylate, PMMA)

.
[1]

7% 5.7 t

54% 1.

1905 1

20131023 1 20131128 .
1) (11072166) (2011DFA53080) .
2) , . E-mail: lizhiqiang@tyut.edu.cn

541

(105 s1 104 s1 ) (

)
[4] (dynamic
mechanical analysis, DMA)

[5-6] .

[2-3] .
(Tg )
Tg 100 C
120 C . 1 Tg
.
-- 2 0.1 s1 ,
2 000 s1 .

PMMA

.
(1)
Li

[7]

PMMA (polycarbonate, PC) (

104 s1 103 s1 )
PMMA .

. PMMA
PMMA .
Chen

[2]

2 --

.
()
(split Hopkinson pressure bar,
SHPB)

[8]

SHPB
PMMA

.
[9] PMMA

PMMA

18.6 s1 .
ZWT (Zhu--Wang--Tang)
6 Maxwell
. [10]

.
Rittel [11] PMMA

.
.
.

542

--
. Drucker--Prager
( 103 s1 104 s1 ).
Forquin [12] [11]

.
.
(2)
Murphy

[13]

PMMA

.
.
[14]

.
GSell [15] (polyethylene terephthalate, PET) (high
impact polystyrene, HIPS)

.
[16] I II PMMA

.
[17] MDYB-3

.
[18] MDYB-3
(
103 s1 103 s1 218 K373 K)

. MDYB-3
.

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2 . PMMA
PMMA
.
(3)

[19] MDYB-3

.
3 .
(4)
Sane

[20]

DMA (dynamic ther-

mane chanical analysis)

(polyvinyl alcohol, PVA) PMMA

.
.

. Segreti [21] PMMA

PMMA
. PMMA
PMMA
. [22]

. [23] PMMA .
Giddings [24] PMMA
SimplexP

. Boger [25]
PMMA PMMA
3
PMMA
.
[26]

[2]

543

.
(methyl

(2) -- --

methacrylate, MMA)

. --

( 50%70%)[42-43]

YB-3

(3)

[27]

[28]

(4)

[29-30] .

[30]
YB-2, YB-3, YB-DM-3(MDYB-3)
[28]

10 C 30 C

MMA
(methacrylic acid, MAA)

[31]

.
[32-33]

MMA
(polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane,
POSS)[34]

[35]

(graphene nanosheets)[36] MAA

(methacrylamide, MAAM) [37]
(di-t-butyl peroxide)
[38] . [39]
Yang

[40]

Chauhan [41] MMA, N-

()

Maxwell
Voight/Kelvin

[5]

[44-45] .

.
Perzyna
Bodner--Partom (BP )[46] Krempl
Colak [47-49]

[45]

Eyring [50-52]
Haward--Thachray ( 3) [53]

Argon [54] (Boyce--Parks--Argon, BPA)

[55]

(1)

( 4) (Arruda--Boyce
5) [56-57] [58] Anand

[59] .

544

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.
h
P
i
3-chain
R N
1
Bi
=C
P
L

i
3
N
3
i
1 X P 1 P
j
j L
3 j=1
N

(1)

C R P
i N
L .
2.1.2
3

2.1

(
)
-- .
[45] .
2.1.1
Boyce

[55]

3 (random walk statistics)

BPA .
(driving stressBPA
)
(back stress
)

Arruda [56-57]

-- .

N P 1 P
chain

Bi8-chain = C R
i L

3
N
3
P i
X
1
1 chain
2

(2)
P
p
j L
3chain j=1
N
C R
(n)
(k) () n
. P
chain
r
1 P2
P2
P
2
chain =
( + P
(3)
2 + 3 )
3 1

[60] PMMA

.
2.1.3
Wu [58]

n
.

(molecular chain orientation distribution function)

.
3

Bifull-chain = (1 P )Bi3-chain + P Bi8-chain

(4)

P
P = 0.85P
max / N max

.
2.1.4

[56]

--

545

7 .
Anand [68]

Voight/Kelvin - 7.

Ahzi [61]

Boyce [62]
Ayoub [63]
--
. Drozdov [64]
.
Mulliken

[65]

DMA PC
PMMA

-- .
[56-57]
()
-- 6 .
PMMA PC
.
.

7 Anand

Hasan

[69]

. Anand [70] Ames [71]

Bergstrom
[72]
Anand .
2.2

Maxwell Voight/Kelvin

.
.
[73-74] Green--Rivlin
6

2.1.5 Anand
Anand Gurtin[66-67]

Anand [59] .

.
. (frame-indifference) (
)

[75] Coleman--Noll
[76]
ZWT
(29) 8.
[77] .
(t) = E0 (t) + 2 (t) + 3 (t)+
Z t
t
E1
(
) exp
d +
1
0
Z t
t
d
E2
(
) exp
2
0

(5)

E0 , ; E1
1 Maxwell

546

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3
. Richeton [82]
[81]
3

PC PMMA
DMA .

8 ZWT

E2 2 Maxwell
. [74]
.
ZWT Tervoort [78]
Leonov Leonov
Maxwell .
.
Ho [47] Krempl [48] (viscoplasticity theory based on overstress, VBO)

. Colak [49] Krempl

.
[79] .
2.3
Zari

[44]

BP

. [80]
.
.
2.4

--
.
Mahieux [81]

Weibull

Richeton [83] Eyring

[50] Fotheringham [84]
-- [85]

. [86] PC, PMMA

(polyamideimide, PAI)
()
--

. Lin [87]

PMMA . Gao [88] 3

ABAQUS (UMAT)
MDYB-3 . Dorogoy
[89] Drucker--Prager [11]
PMMA

PMMA .

.
(quantum mechanics, QM)
(Monte Carlo method, MC)
(molecular mechanics, MM) (molecular dynamics, MD)
MC MM
MD .

[90-91]

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)
.

.
[92]
Cerius2 PMMA
. Dreiding (NVT) 5
25 ps NPT

[20] .

.
. Dreiding Qeq
NPT
25 ps.
Sane

Cerius2 (
) PMMA
PMMA
.
.
PMMA PMMA
.
PMMA
PMMA .
Tung

[93]

4
PMMA

. --

-- .

ZWT ZWT .
PMMA

547

.
.
PMMA
()

. PMMA
PMMA .
.

().

() -

.

.

PMMA
.

PMMA

. PMMA

(1)

548

.
(2)

. MC
.
(3)

.
.

.
PMMA
.
PMMA
.
PMMA
.

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