Growth modeling and mechanical study of polymer spherulite aggregates
Fabrice Detrez  1, *@  , Nicolas Auffray  1@  , C.t. Nguyen  2@  , Luc Chevalier  1@  
1 : Laboratoire de Modélisation et Simulation Multi Echelle  (MSME)
Université Paris-Est, CNRS : UMR8208
2 : Laboratoire de Modélisation et Simulation Multi Echelle  (MSME)  -  Site web
Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR8208
Université Paris-Est, 5 Bd Descartes, 77454 Marne-la-Vallée, Cedex 2 -  France
* : Auteur correspondant

Semicrystalline polymer materials play an essential role in the industry, such as the polyetheretherketone (PEEK) for the F1 engine components and the polytétrafluoroéthylène (PTFE) for corrosion resistant lining of pipes. The modeling and prediction of polymer microstructures has environmental and economic interests. In this study, a mesoscale modeling of spherulite pattern formation is constructed. For this purpose, the spherulite growing is modeled by a multi-phase fields model and by a cellular automaton. The spherulite nucleation is modeled using the concept of random local nucleation time. The kinetics parameters of nucleation and crystal growth rate are identified from PESU experimental data. The generated microstructures are used to study the elastic anisotropy at the mesoscopic scale.


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