Semisoft elastic response of nematic elastomers to complex deformations

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Biggins, J S ^a   Terentjev, E M ^a   Warner, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASTICS; POLYMERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RUBBER; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES;

COMPLEX DEFORMATIONS; COMPOSITIONAL FLUCTUATIONS; DIRECTOR ORIENTED; ELASTIC RESPONSE]; FINAL STATES; LARGE RANGES; LARGE-STRAIN; NEMATIC ELASTOMERS; SHEAR MODULUS; STRAIN CURVES; STRESS-STRAIN; STRONG TESTS;

ROTATION;

EID: 54549124771     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.041704     Document Type: Article

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