Fracture behaviour of styrene/butadiene block copolymers having different molecular architecture

Macromolecular Materials and Engineering

Volumn 288, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 432-439

  Adhikari, Rameshwar ^a   Lach, Ralf ^a,b   Michler, Goerg H ^a   Weidisch, Roland ^b   Knoll, Konrad ^c  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crack toughness; Electron microscopy; J integral; Molecular architecture; Morphology; Styrene butadiene block copolymers

Indexed keywords

BUTADIENE; CRACK PROPAGATION; FRACTURE; STYRENE; TENSILE TESTING;

CRACK TOUGHNESS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

1,3 BUTADIENE; COPOLYMER; ELASTOMER; STYRENE;

ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FRACTURE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 0037568290     PISSN: 14387492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mame.200390039     Document Type: Article

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