Simple strain measure for entangled polymers

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 845-854

  Marrucci, Giuseppe ^a   Greco, Francesco ^a   Ianniruberto, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; KINEMATICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; TENSORS;

ENTANGLED NETWORK; FINGER TENSOR; FORCE BALANCE;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 0034216079     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.551124     Document Type: Article

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