Demonstration of a multiscale modeling technique: Prediction of the stress-strain response of light activated shape memory polymers

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Beblo, Richard V ^a   Weiland, Lisa Mauck ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; ADAPTIVE STRUCTURE; BOLTZMANN; CHAIN INTERACTIONS; CROSSLINKS; FITTING RESULTS; LIGHT-ACTIVATED SHAPE MEMORY POLYMERS; MODELING PROCESS; MOLECULAR FORMULATIONS; MOLECULAR SCALE MODELS; MULTI-SCALE MODELING; MULTISCALE MODELING TECHNIQUE; OPTICAL MANIPULATION; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER NETWORKS; POLYMER SYSTEMS; R VALUE; ROTATIONAL ISOMERIC STATE THEORY; SHAPE MEMORY POLYMERS; STRESS-STRAIN RESPONSE; SYSTEM DESIGN; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

CONSTRAINT THEORY; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; POLYMERS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STRESSES;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 78149237628     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/19/9/094012     Document Type: Article

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