Logistic approach to polymer degradation in dynamic TGA

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 667-674

  Cao, Ricardo ^a   Naya, Salvador ^a   Artiaga, Ramón ^a   García, Ana ^a   Varela, Angel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fitting; Logistic mixture; Polymer degradation; Smoothing; TGA

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; DEGRADATION; DERIVATIVES; FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEPARATION; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

FITTING; LOGISTIC MIXTURE; POLYMER DEGRADATIONS; SMOOTHING;

POLYMERS;

EID: 2942531215     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2004.03.006     Document Type: Article

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