Creep and stress-rupture of Nafion® membranes under controlled environment

Mechanics of Materials

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 678-685

  Solasi, Roham ^a   Huang, Xinyu ^b   Reifsnider, Kenneth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c The Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Creep; Fuel cell; Nafion ; Stress rupture; Time dependent failure; Time temperature hydration parameter

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT; CREEP AND RELAXATION; CREEP TESTS; FUEL CELL DESIGNS; HYDRATION LEVELS; IONIC FORCES; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SHORT-TERM TEST; STRESS-RUPTURE; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; TIME DEPENDENT FAILURE; TIME-TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; AUTOMOTIVE FUELS; FUEL CELLS; HYDRATION;

CREEP;

EID: 77955715433     PISSN: 01676636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmat.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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