The Effect of the Property of Non-Linear Viscosity on the Interfacial Debonding of Particulate-Reinforced Polymers

Abstract

The debonding of a rigid particle embedded in an infinite non-linear viscoelastic material is investigated in this paper. Under sphere-symmetric deformation, a non-linear equilibrium equation expressed by velocity of a particle in the viscoelastic matrix material is derived. The strain rate is obtained by solving non-linear equation in terms of iterative method. According to the energy criterion, the critical instant of the interfacial debongding is calculated. Numerical results show that the influence of non-linear viscosity on the interfacial debonding is significant.