Strain shielding and confined plasticity in thin polymer films: Impacts on thermomechanical data storage
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Substrate constraints and interfacial boundary layers in thin polystyrene films are explored with high strain rate indentations characteristic of thermomechanical terabit data storage operations. Under these impact-like conditions, the coupling of strain-rate and inertial effects leads to large plastic deformations relative to quasi-static indentations. Strain shielding is present when the plastic deformation radius exceeds 65% of the film thickness. Thereafter, deformation is restricted by the rigid substrate, giving rise to elevated rim heights and interfacial shearing. The shielding effects were alleviated with use of a modulus-matched buffer layer between the polymer film and the substrate. A non-monotonic rheological gradient in the polymer films leads to the distribution of contact pressures between two asymptotic scenarios: (i) a compliant surface with a rigid sub-surface and (ii) a rigid surface with a compliant sub-surface.
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