Rubber elasticity: A contact-probability model with harmonic entanglement constraints

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 18, 1996, Pages 8352-8361

  Allegra, Giuseppe ^a   Bontempelli, Sergio ^a   Raos, Guido ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DEFORMATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELASTICITY; FREE ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; SWELLING;

GAUSSIAN APPROXIMATION; HARMONIC ENTANGLEMENT CONSTRAINTS; JAMES GUTH THEORY; MOONEY EFFECT; PACKING FORCES; RONCA ALLEGRA THEORY;

RUBBER;

EID: 0030575663     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.472690     Document Type: Article

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