Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 54, Number 2, April 2001
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Page(s) | 269 - 274 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary physics and related areas of science and technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2001-00305-x | |
Published online | 01 December 2003 |
Defect-mediated creep of structured materials
1
Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802, USA
2
James Franck Institute, University of Chicago -
Chicago, IL 60637, USA
3
Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University -
Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Received:
28
July
2000
Accepted:
13
February
2001
Low-stress creep measurements on a nematic liquid crystal polymer indicate
that it is a viscoelastic solid, with a modulus of and a
yield stress of
. Both smectics and nematics are
viscoelastic solids at very low stress levels, with a modulus that is
related to their defect texture. At stress levels somewhat above the yield
stress, there is a yielding regime where the deformation rate and defect
spacing are power laws in the applied stress. We understand these power laws
using the ideas developed long ago by Orowan for the motion of line defects
in crystalline solids. The exponents of these power laws are different for
nematics and smectics, but the nematic universality class also appears to
apply to superplastic metals and ceramics.
PACS: 83.80.Xz – Liquid crystals: nematic, cholesteric, smectic, discotic, etc / 61.30.Jf – Defects in liquid crystals / 62.20.Fe – Deformation and plasticity (including yield, ductility, and superplasticity)
© EDP Sciences, 2001
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