Primitive chain network simulations for comb-branched polymer under step shear deformations

Rheologica Acta

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 193-200

  Masubuchi, Yuichi ^a   Matsumiya, Yumi ^a   Watanabe, Hiroshi ^a   Shiromoto, Seiji ^b   Tsutsubuchi, Masaaki ^b   Togawa, Yoshiaki ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SUMITOMO CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brownian dynamics; Damping function; Entanglement; Nonlinear viscoelasticity; Polymer melt; Stress relaxation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857654588     PISSN: 00354511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00397-011-0574-x     Document Type: Article

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