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Mechanical properties of solid polymers
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A concise, self-contained introduction to solid polymers, the mechanics of their behavior and molecular and structural interpretations can be found in this article, which provides extended coverage of recent developments in rubber elasticity, relaxation transitions, non-linear viscoelastic behavior, anisotropic mechanical behavior, yield behavior of polymers and other fields.Abstract:
A concise, self-contained introduction to solid polymers, the mechanics of their behavior and molecular and structural interpretations. This updated edition provides extended coverage of recent developments in rubber elasticity, relaxation transitions, non-linear viscoelastic behavior, anisotropic mechanical behavior, yield behavior of polymers, breaking phenomena, and other fields.read more
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Elastic yielding in cold drawn polymer glasses well below the glass transition temperature.
Shiwang Cheng,Shi-Qing Wang +1 more
TL;DR: This Letter reports elastic-driven internal yielding in strained ductile polymer glasses and concludes that the elastic yielding arises from the distortion of backbones leading to intra-segmental tension in the chain network.
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Interaction of nonhomogeneous shear, nonlinear viscoelasticity, and yield of a solid polymer
Alan S. Wineman,W. K. Waldron +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a constitutive equation for small strain viscoelastic response is considered in which stress relaxation occurs faster as strain increases, and it is shown that there is a time when the material near the inner support begins to yield and a layer of large shear strain gradient begins to grow rapidly.
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Electrical properties of laminated epoxy-carbon fiber composite
S. A. Jawad,M. S. Ahmad,Y. Ramadin,A. M. Zihlif,A. Paesano,Ezio Martuscelli,Giuseppe Ragosta +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of temperature on the electrical properties of laminated epoxy composites containing 60% by volume of commercial unidirectional carbon fibers was examined and it was found that the impedance decreases with increasing temperature and is inversely proportional to the number of layers in the specimen.
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Linear viscoelasticity in aluminum thin films
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a capacitance bulge system to study the elastic modulus of thin aluminum films at room temperature and found that the changes in modulus can affect the stability and performance of microelectromechanical systems.
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Foundations of Experimental Mechanics: Principles of Modelling, Observation and Experimentation
TL;DR: As it is indicated in the preface to the book, the major problem of contemporary experimental research in mechanics is the growth of discrepancies or even contradictions between the theory and technique of producing, collecting and processing of information-carrying signals.
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The Phenomena of Rupture and Flow in Solids
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Yielding of steel sheets containing slits
TL;DR: In this article, a relation between extent of plastic yielding and external load applied was investigated, and panels containing internal and edge slits were loaded in tension and lengths of plastic zones were measured.
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