Toughening effect of strain-induced crystallites in natural rubber

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 24, 2009, Pages

  Zhang, H P ^a   Niemczura, J ^b   Dennis, G ^a   Ravi Chandar, K ^b   Marder, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK SPEED; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; FRACTURE RESISTANCE; NATURAL RUBBER; NUMERICAL MODELS; TOUGHENING EFFECTS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CRYSTALLITES; RUBBER;

FRACTURE;

EID: 67549112075     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.245503     Document Type: Article

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