Probing and characterizing the early stages of cavitation in glassy polymers in molecular dynamics simulations

Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Estevez, R ^a,c   Long, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b Rhodia Europe   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLYMERS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

DEFORMATION RATES; GLASSY POLYMERS; HETEROGENEOUS DEFORMATION FIELDS; INTERMEDIATE LOADING RATES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; POLYMER FRACTURE; SHARP TRANSITION; SHEAR YIELDING;

CAVITATION;

EID: 79957836089     PISSN: 09650393     EISSN: 1361651X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0965-0393/19/4/045004     Document Type: Article

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