Experimentally simulating high-rate behaviour: Rate and temperature effects in polycarbonate and PMMA

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 2015, 2014, Pages

  Kendall, M J ^a   Siviour, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adiabatic; PMMA; Polycarbonate; Polymer; PVC; Rate dependence

Indexed keywords

POLYCARBONATES; POLYMERS; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

ADIABATIC; AMORPHOUS POLYMERS; HIGH-RATE DEFORMATIONS; LOW STRAIN RATES; PMMA; POST YIELDS; RATE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

LOADING;

EID: 84898946607     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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