Semicrystalline polymers products usually adopt a crystallized form in their end-use
environment. These crystallized polymers undergo various deformations under different …

Cavitation‐induced stress whitening in semi‐crystalline polymers during stretching
significantly influences the physical properties of the materials. This review summarizes …

Two quenched isotactic polypropylene samples with different molecular weight were used to
explore the sudden stress whitening activated at large strains during stretching at elevated …

Semi-crystalline polymers are now extensively used in various applications such as aircrafts,
civilian structures, oil and gas platforms and electronics. They are, however, inherently …

Cavitation is a damage process often observed during or after pressure release in polymers
exposed to high-pressure diffusive gases. Only a few characterizations of the phenomenon …

In this paper extensive research on the polyurethane shape memory polymer (PU-SMP) is
reported, including its structure analysis, our experimental investigation of its …

The evolution of voids has been used as an efficient indicator of the volume changes
occurring during deformation for polymers which undergo high levels of plasticity. This has …

To design high‐performance poly (lactide)‐based materials (PLA‐based) with improved
toughness, two approaches based on the reactive extrusion (REx) process are investigated …

Micromechanisms of deformation and cavitation within the spherulitic microstructure of a
polyamide 6 (PA6) material have been observed with a true spatial resolution of 50 nm by …

This study deals with the cavitation of semi-crystalline Polyamide 11 during deformation. The
link between the microstructural evolution and the material macroscopic behaviour is …