An average-stretch full-network model for rubber elasticity

Journal of Elasticity

Volumn 70, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 65-86

  Beatty, Millard F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Constitutive equations; Full network models; Non Gaussian chains; Rubber elasticity

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RUBBER;

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; FULL-NETWORK MODELS; MOLECULAR CHAINS; NON-GAUSSIAN CHAINS;

ELASTICITY;

EID: 0347516282     PISSN: 03743535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ELAS.0000005553.38563.91     Document Type: Article

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