Extracting the elastic and viscoelastic properties of a polymeric film using a sharp indentation relaxation test

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2991-3000

  Zhang, C Y ^a   Zhang, Y W ^a   Zeng, K Y ^a   Shen, L ^b   Wang, Y Y ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; INDENTATION; POLYCARBONATES; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SUBSTRATES; VISCOELASTICITY;

POLYMERIC FILM; SEMI-ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; SHARP INDENTATION RELAXATION TEST;

FILMS;

EID: 33846325480     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2006.0395     Document Type: Article

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