Mechanical testing of glassy and rubbery polymers in numerical simulations: Role of boundary conditions in tensile stress experiments

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Makke, Ali ^a   Perez, Michel ^a   Lame, Olivier ^a   Barrat, Jean Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSE-GRAINED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; HOMOGENEOUS DEFORMATION; NANOMETRIC; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; POLYMER MATERIALS; RUBBERY POLYMERS; TENSILE TESTS;

DEFORMATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLYMERS; STRESSES;

TENSILE TESTING;

EID: 67650407552     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3148381     Document Type: Article

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