A constitutive model for predicting the large deformation thermomechanical behavior of fluoropolymers

Mechanics of Materials

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 899-913

  Bergstrom J S ^a   Hilbert Jr , L B ^a  

^a EXPONENT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Constitutive modeling; Experiments; Finite element simulation; Fluoropolymer; Large strain; PTFE; Time dependence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; THERMOMECHANICAL TREATMENT;

CONSTITUTIVE MODELING; DEFORMATION RATES; LARGE STRAIN; TIME-DEPENDENCE;

DEFORMATION;

EID: 18444380290     PISSN: 01676636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmat.2004.09.002     Document Type: Article

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