A knotted and interconnected skeleton structural model for predicting young's modulus of binary phase polymer blends

Polymer Engineering and Science

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 643-651

  Wang, Jianfeng F ^a   Carson, James K ^b   North, Mike F ^c   Cleland, Don J ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^c RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; FORECASTING; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; POLYMER BLENDS; SOLVENTS; VOLUME FRACTION;

BINARY PHASIS; INTERMEDIATE COMPONENTS; PERCOLATION THEORY; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; SKELETON STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL MODELING; STRUCTURAL SYMMETRY; STRUCTURE VARIATION; SYMMETRICS; YOUNG MODULUS;

ELASTIC MODULI;

EID: 77949506722     PISSN: 00323888     EISSN: 15482634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pen.21592     Document Type: Article

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