Computational modelling of large deformations in layered-silicate/PET nanocomposites near the glass transition

Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Figiel, Łukasz ^a,b   Dunne, Fionn P E ^a   Buckley, C Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BLOW MOULDING; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; ELASTO-VISCOPLASTIC CONSTITUTIVE MODEL; END-USE PROPERTIES; FINITE ELEMENT SOLVER; FORMING PROCESS; HIGH-ASPECT RATIO; LARGE DEFORMATIONS; LARGE ROTATION; MATRIX; MICROSCOPIC LEVELS; MONTE CARLO; MORPHOLOGY EVOLUTION; NANOCOMPOSITE MORPHOLOGY; NON-LINEAR; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PARTICLE VOLUME FRACTIONS; PHYSICALLY BASED; PROCESS PARAMETERS; RE-ORIENTATION; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENTS; STRAIN STIFFENING; STRESS-INDUCED; TEREPHTHALATE; UMAT SUBROUTINE;

ASPECT RATIO; DEFORMATION; ETHYLENE; GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; REINFORCEMENT; SILICATES; THERMOFORMING; TITRATION; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

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EID: 75649096329     PISSN: 09650393     EISSN: 1361651X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0965-0393/18/1/015001     Document Type: Article

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