A small-strain model to simulate the curing of thermosets

Computational Mechanics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 769-779

  Hossain, M ^a   Possart, G ^b   Steinmann, P ^b  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Curing; Stiffness increase; Thermosets; Viscoelasticity; Volume shrinkage

Indexed keywords

CROSSLINKING; CURING; MACROMOLECULES; NUMERICAL METHODS; SHRINKAGE; THERMOSETS; VISCOELASTICITY;

CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MACROMOLECULAR STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELING; STIFFNESS INCREASE; VOLUME SHRINKAGE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 60449100408     PISSN: 01787675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00466-008-0344-5     Document Type: Article

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