ABSTRACT
Thus, the deformation of the glassy polymer in the adsorptionactive medium (AAM) leads to its self-dispersion into the finest (nanosized) aggregates of the oriented macromolecules which is evidently accompanied by the development of a high level of the interfacial surface. The excess of the interfacial surface has a strong effect on the entire set of the properties of the polymer subjected to crazing and, consequently, it shows the structural–mechanical behaviour not typical at all of the glassy or crystalline state of solid polymers. This is accompanied by the transition of the polymer to the new structural–physical state [1]. This section describes and analyses these unusual properties. These problems were also partially discussed in chapter 5 in the analysis of the data obtained for the force softening of the glassy and crystalline polymers.
