Deformation and failure studies of polymer nanocomposites

12th International Conference on Fracture 2009, ICF-12

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages 7347-7357

  Dasari, A ^a   Lim, S H ^a   Yu, Z Z ^a   Wang, G T ^a   Liu, H Y ^a   Mai, Y W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TOOL; COMPLEX QUESTIONS; CRITICAL ISSUES; CYCLIC FATIGUE; DIFFERENT SCALE; MICROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES; NANOCLAY LAYERS; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PROCESSING-STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS; SUB-SURFACES; TERNARY NANOCOMPOSITES; TOUGHENING MECHANISMS;

BLENDING; DEFORMATION; EMBRITTLEMENT; NANOCOMPOSITES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84869854748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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