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Mechanical Properties of Polymers and Composites

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss various mechanical properties of fiber-filled composites, such as elastic moduli, creep and stress relaxation, and other mechanical properties such as stress-strain behavior and strength.
Abstract: Mechanical Tests and Polymer Transitions * Elastic Moduli * Creep and Stress Relaxation * Dynamical Mechanical Properties * Stress-Strain Behaviour and Strength * Other mechanical Properties * Particulate-Filled Polymers * Fiber- Filled Composites and Other Composites.
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TL;DR: Kolařik et al. as discussed by the authors derived a new type of internal time-tensile strain superposition for a series of single-step nonlinear tensile creeps.

48 citations


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  • ...Beyond this limit, the produced strain typically rises more than linearly with the acting stress [4,5,11–16]....

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  • ...Theoretical background of the creep behavior of polymers has been well elaborated in the framework of linear viscoelasticity [1–10], which...

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  • ...So far, the effects of temperature and hydrostatic pressure on linear viscoelastic behavior of polymers have quantitatively been interpreted [3–10] in terms of the fractional free volume f available for molecular (segmental) mobility....

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  • ...The strain in isothermal tensile creep, e(t,s), is generally viewed as consisting of three components depending on time t and stress s [1,4–12]: (i) elastic (instantaneous, reversible) ee(s); (ii) viscoelastic (time-dependent, reversible) ev(t,s); (iii) plastic (irreversible) ep(t,s): ðt; sÞ 1⁄4 eðsÞ þ vðt;sÞ þ pðt;sÞ (1)...

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  • ...This principle (BSP) applied to the linear creep states [4–8] that the response of a material to a given load is independent of responses of the material to any load already acting on the material....

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28 Nov 2005-Polymer
TL;DR: In this paper, the flat sheet membrane preparation from syndiotactic polypropylene (sPP) by thermally induced phase separation (TIPS) process was reported. And the phase diagrams of sPP and iPP with diphenylether as diluent were obtained.

48 citations

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Chen-Yang Liu1, Chaoxu Li1, Peng Chen1, Jiasong He1, Qingrong Fan1 
01 Apr 2004-Polymer
TL;DR: In this article, the dielectric α-relaxation of linear polycarbonate and branched polycarbonates has been fitted with Vogel-Fulcher-Tammann-Hesse (VFTH) equation and the shape of relaxation time curves is also analyzed.

48 citations

Patent
25 Feb 2010
TL;DR: A curable binder composition consisting essentially of one or more ammonium salt of an inorganic acid and at least one carbohydrate, and the use thereof as a thermosetting binder is described in this paper.
Abstract: A curable binder composition consisting essentially of one or more ammonium salt of an inorganic acid and at least one carbohydrate, and the use thereof as a thermosetting binder. Also described are composite materials comprising the curable binder composition, and methods of application.

48 citations