The effect of specific nucleation on tensile mechanical behaviour of isotactic polypropylene

European Polymer Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1317-1323

  Raab, Miroslav ^a   Ščudla, Jaroslav ^a   Kolařík, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Phase in polypropylene; Creep; Nucleating agents; Polypropylene; Stress strain behaviour

Indexed keywords

CREEP; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELASTIC MODULI; INJECTION MOLDING; NUCLEATION; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS; YIELD STRESS;

CRYSTALLINE MODIFICATIONS; NUCLEATING AGENTS; STRESS-STRAIN BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 2942650487     PISSN: 00143057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2004.02.027     Document Type: Article

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