Necking instability during polydomain-monodomain transition in a smectic main-chain elastomer

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3525-3531

  Patil, Harshad P ^a   Lentz, Daniel M ^a   Hedden, Ronald C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAIN AXES; DIRECTOR ORIENTATION; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE ELASTOMERS; LOW STRAINS; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; MONODOMAIN; POLYDOMAIN; POLYMER BACKBONES; SMECTIC LAYERS; UNIAXIAL TENSIONS;

POWDER METALLURGY; RUBBER; TOOLS; YIELD STRESS;

STRAIN RATE;

EID: 66249132695     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma9001325     Document Type: Article

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