Viscoelasticity, viscoplasticity, and creep failure of polypropylene/clay nanocomposites

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 69, Issue 15-16, 2009, Pages 2596-2603

  Drozdov, A D ^a   Hog Lejre A L ^a   Christiansen, J deC ^b  

^a DANISH TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

A. Nanocomposites; B. Creep; C. Modeling; D. Life prediction

Indexed keywords

A. NANOCOMPOSITES; ADJUSTABLE PARAMETERS; B. CREEP; C. MODELING; CREEP FAILURE; CREEP RUPTURES; CREEP TESTS; D. LIFE PREDICTION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; NANO CLAYS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; RELAXATION TEST; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STRESS STRAIN RELATION; TENSILE TESTS; TIME TO FAILURE;

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; CREEP; ELASTICITY; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; PLASTICITY; REINFORCEMENT; STRAIN RATE; TENSILE TESTING; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOPLASTICITY; VISCOSITY;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

CREEP; FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYPROPYLENE; SIMULATION; STRESS-STRAIN PROPERTY; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 70350057165     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2009.07.018     Document Type: Article

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