Fracture analysis of annealed PVDF films

Polymer Testing

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 392-402

  Wallner, Gernot M ^a   Major, Zoltan ^a   Maier, Günther A ^c   Lang, Reinhold W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^b POLYMER COMPETENCE CENTER LEOBEN GMBH   (Austria)

^c MCL Materials Center Leoben Forschungs GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Annealing; Film; Fracture; PVDF

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CAVITATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; MECHANICAL TESTING; MICROMECHANICS; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

FIBER BUNDLE STRUCTURE; POLY(VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE); SPHERULITE BREAKDOWN;

POLYMER FILMS;

EID: 41749115923     PISSN: 01429418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2008.01.006     Document Type: Article

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