Influence of the molecular structure of polyolefins on the damping function in shear

Macromolecules

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3720-3726

  Stadler, Florian J ^a,b   Auhl, Dietmar ^a,c   Münstedt, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; FUNCTIONS; MOLAR MASS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULES; ORGANOMETALLICS; PHOTORESISTS; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; POLYMERS; POLYOLEFINS; POLYPROPYLENES; PUMPING PLANTS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SHEARING MACHINES; STRAIN; THERMOPLASTICS;

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS); BRANCHED POLYETHYLENE (BPE); BRANCHED PP; COMONOMER CONTENT; DAMPING FUNCTIONS; LINEAR COUNTERPARTS; LINEAR POLYETHYLENES; METALLOCENE CATALYZED POLYETHYLENE (MPE); MOLAR MASS DISTRIBUTION (MMD); SHEAR BEHAVIOR; STEP STRAINS; STRAIN DEPENDENCE; THREE PARAMETERS;

POLYETHYLENES;

EID: 45749155955     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma0717587     Document Type: Article

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