Micromechanics of the growth of a craze fibril in glassy polymers

Polymer

Volumn 46, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 7504-7518

  Basu, Sumit ^a   Mahajan, Dhiraj K ^a   Van Der Giessen, Erik ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amorphous polymers; Crazing; Disentanglement

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; CRAZING; GLASS; HARDENING; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

AMORPHOUS POLYMERS; CRAZE FIBRIL; DISENTANGLEMENT; GLASSY POLYMERS;

POLYMERS;

POLYMER SCIENCE;

EID: 23744446726     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2005.05.148     Document Type: Article

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