Deviatoric stress driven transient melting below the glass transition temperature in shocked polymers

The relaxation of polymers around and below their glass transition temperature is governed by a range correlated unit processes with wide timescales. fast deformation rates shock loading can negate significant fraction these resulting in the dynamical rubbers. In this letter we report inverse, transient melting glassy polymer under loading. large deviatoric stresses near front induce transitions backbone dihedral angles stress characteristic melts. This followed slower expected for glasses.