Stress Whitening as an Observation Method of Residual Stress in MABS Polymer Material through the Example of Holding Pressure in an Injection Molding Process
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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Stress Whitening as an Observation Method of Residual Stress in MABS Polymer Material through the Example of Holding Pressure in an Injection Molding Process
Contributor:
Brzęk, Paweł;
Sterzyński, Tomasz
Published:
MDPI AG, 2020
Published in:
Polymers, 12 (2020) 12, Seite 2871
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3390/polym12122871
ISSN:
2073-4360
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
The effects such as warpage, dimensional instability and environmental stress corrosion, due to the presence of residual stresses in polymeric products, are strongly dependent on injection molding conditions. The holding time and holding pressure belongs to most important processing parameters, determining the dimensional stability and properties of injected goods. A new procedure based on a visualization technique was applied, where the levels of residual stresses of the samples were estimated. The experiments were performed for samples produced of translucent methacrylate acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (MABS), a commodity polymer with a high transparency, necessary for the optical visualization of the stress whitening. The samples produced by injecting molding were deformed to a constant elongation, to observe the dependent stress whitening effect subsequently used to evaluate the stress distribution. It was found that depending on the value of the injection holding pressure, various levels of residual stress and its distribution may be observed in MABS samples. These measurements conformed that the applied optical method is an easy-to-perform technique. The possibility to detect the residual stresses over the whole cross-section of the transparent product, without the necessity for local stress determination, is another significant advantage of this investigation procedure.