AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND LENGTH SCALES IN INELASTIC DEFORMATION OF AN AMORPHOUS THERMOPLASTIC

Solid Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 142, Issue , 2006, Pages 143-150

  Tjernlund, J Agde ^a   Gamstedt, E K ^a   Gudmundson, P ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DEFORMATION; HARDNESS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; REINFORCED PLASTICS;

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; INELASTIC BEHAVIOR; INELASTIC DEFORMATION; LENGTH SCALE; LENGTH SCALE EFFECTS; LENGTH SCALE PARAMETER; STRAIN GRADIENT EFFECTS; STRAIN GRADIENTS; THERMOPLASTIC POLYMER; THERMOSET POLYMERS;

POLYSTYRENES;

EID: 84891090920     PISSN: 09250042     EISSN: 22147764     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4946-0_15     Document Type: Article

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