Modeling the effect of strain rate on the mechanical properties of HDPE/clay nanocomposite foams

Polymers and Polymer Composites

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 561-575

  Jo, Choonghee ^a   Naguib, Hani E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; CRYSTALLINITY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ELASTIC MODULI; FOAMS; HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENES; NANOCOMPOSITES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE STRENGTH; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BATCH-FOAMING PROCESS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETERS; HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE(HDPE); LOGARITHMIC SCALE; NANOCOMPOSITE FOAMS; RATE OF INCREASE; SEMI-CRYSTALLINE POLYMER; VISCOELASTIC STRESS;

STRAIN RATE;

EID: 57749098622     PISSN: 09673911     EISSN: 14782391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096739110801600810     Document Type: Article

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