Fracture in disordered media and tensile strength of microcrystalline cellulose tablets at low relative densities

International Journal of Pharmaceutics

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 243-255

  Kuentz, Martin ^a   Leuenberger, Hans ^a   Kolb, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Lattice model; Percolation theory; Polymer tablets; Tensile strength

Indexed keywords

MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TABLET; TENSILE STRENGTH; THEORY;

CELLULOSE; TABLETS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 0033066988     PISSN: 03785173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5173(99)00081-2     Document Type: Article

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