High strain rate properties of a polymer-bonded sugar: Their dependence on applied and internal constraints

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 464, Issue 2093, 2008, Pages 1229-1255

  Siviour, C R ^a,d   Laity, P R ^b   Proud, W G ^a   Field, J E ^a   Porter, D ^c   Church, P D ^c   Gould, P ^c   Huntingdon Thresher, W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constitutive modelling; Hopkinson bar; Hydroxyl terminated polybutadiene; Polymer bonded explosive

Indexed keywords

BINDERS; DEFORMATION; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; GLASS TRANSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYBUTADIENES; POLYMERS; STRAIN RATE; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; TOMOGRAPHY;

CONSTITUTIVE MODELLING; HOPKINSON BAR; HYDROXYL-TERMINATED POLYBUTADIENE; POLYMER-BONDED EXPLOSIVES;

SUGARS;

EID: 40749102567     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2007.0214     Document Type: Conference Paper

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