Molecular modeling of thermosetting polymers: Effects of degree of curing and chain length on thermo-mechanical properties

ICCM International Conferences on Composite Materials

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Shenogina, N B ^a   Tsige, M ^b   Mukhopadhyay, S M ^a   Patnaik, S S ^c  

^a Wright State University   (United States)

^b University of Akron   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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