Nonequilibrium simulations of filled polymer networks: Searching for the origins of reinforcement and nonlinearity

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Raos, Guido ^a   Casalegno, Mosè ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC MECHANISM; CROSS-LINKED ELASTOMERS; DISSIPATIVE PARTICLE DYNAMICS; FILLER PARTICLES; FINITE EXTENSIBILITY; HISTORY DEPENDENCE; MULLINS EFFECT; NON EQUILIBRIUM; NON-EQUILIBRIUM SIMULATIONS; NON-LINEARITY; PARTICLE-PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PAYNE-EFFECTS; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER NETWORKS; POTENTIAL FUNCTION; RUBBER REINFORCEMENT; RUBBER-FILLER INTERFACE; SIMULATION RESULT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FILLED POLYMERS; FILLERS; HARMONIC FUNCTIONS; REINFORCEMENT; RUBBER;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 79951530853     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3537971     Document Type: Article

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