Microvoid formation and strain hardening in highly cross-linked polymer networks

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

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Mukherji, Debashish ^a   Abrams, Cameron F ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; DYNAMICS; HARDENING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLYMERIC GLASS; POLYMERS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; STRAIN HARDENING;

FUNCTIONAL FORMS; GENERIC MODELS; HARDENING BEHAVIORS; KEY FACTORS; LENNARD JONESES; MICRO VOIDS; MICROVOID FORMATIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PARTICLE PACKINGS; POLYMER GLASSES; POLYMER NETWORKS; TENSILE DEFORMATIONS; TETRAHEDRAL BONDS; VOID SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS;

PLASTICITY;

EID: 56149084765     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.050801     Document Type: Article

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