How does "phase transformation toughening" work in semicrystalline polymers?

Polymer Engineering and Science

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 203-210

  Karger Kocsis, József ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR VERBUNDWERKSTOFFE GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STRESSES; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

CRYSTALLINE DENSITY; DEEPLY DOUBLE EDGE NOTCHED TENSILE SPECIMENS; ISOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENES; MECHANICAL LOADING; SEMICRYSTALLINE POLYMERS;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 0029733523     PISSN: 00323888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pen.10403     Document Type: Article

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