Improved testing system for thermomechanical experiments on polymers using uniaxial compression equipment

Polymer Testing

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 503-512

  Westbrook, Kristofer K ^a   Castro, Francisco ^a   Long, Kevin N ^a   Slifka, Andrew J ^b   Qi, H Jerry ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite deformation; Polymer testing; Thermomechanical behaviors; Uniaxial compression tests

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; EXISTING SYSTEMS; FINITE DEFORMATIONS; HIGH THERMAL; LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; NETWORK POLYMERS; PEAK TEMPERATURES; POLYMER TEMPERATURE; POLYMER TESTING; SAMPLE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; TESTING SYSTEMS; THERMAL MANAGEMENT; THERMO-MECHANICAL; THERMO-MECHANICAL BEHAVIORS; UNI-AXIAL COMPRESSION; UNIAXIAL COMPRESSION TESTS;

COMPRESSION TESTING; DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTS; INSTRUMENTS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOANALYSIS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 77950862262     PISSN: 01429418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2010.02.011     Document Type: Article

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