Controlled temperature jaws to improve material characterization by uniaxial hot tensile test

Polymer Testing

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 772-781

  Duarte, F M ^a   Nobrega J M ^a   Viana, J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Controlled temperature jaws; Material characterization; Stretching; Uniaxial hot tensile test

Indexed keywords

BLOW MOLDING; CHARACTERIZATION; CLAMPING DEVICES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLASS TRANSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY; STRETCHING; TENSILE TESTING; THERMOFORMING;

CONTROLLED TEMPERATURE JAWS; MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION; MODEL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; UNIAXIAL HOT TENSILE TEST;

MATERIALS SCIENCE;

EID: 33747750864     PISSN: 01429418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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