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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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Rubber-toughening of plastics
TL;DR: The effects of stress and strain history on the mechanical properties of highimpact polystyrene and PPOR resin have been studied in a number of different tests, including repeated creep testing of individual specimens and repeated tensile tests at constant strain-rate upon individual specimens as discussed by the authors.
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A study of the effect of surface treatments on the tensile strength of flax fibres. Part II. application of Weibull statistics
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of two surface treatments (acetylation and stearation) upon the tensile strength of flax fibres was discussed in terms of Gaussian statistics.
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Tensile creep and recovery in ultra-high modulus linear polyethylenes
M.A. Wilding,I. M. Ward +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the tensile creep and recovery of oriented linear polyethylene (LPE) monofilaments have been studied for a range of samples of different structure.
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Effect of Residual Dipolar Interactions on the NMR Relaxation in Cross-Linked Elastomers
TL;DR: In this paper, a unified approach is presented to relate the residual dipolar couplings in various independent NMR experiments to the cross- link density, which is demonstrated on a series of cross-linked poly(styrene-co-butadiene) elastomers.
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The Effect of Temperature and Pressure on the Mechanical Properties of Thermo- and/or Piezorheologically Simple Polymeric Materials in Thermodynamic Equilibrium – A Critical Review
TL;DR: A critical review of models proposed to describe the effect of temperature and/or pressure on time-dependent polymeric materials can be found in this paper, where the emphasis is on the theoretical aspects, althoughexperimental results are used as illustrations.
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The Determination of the Elastic Field of an Ellipsoidal Inclusion, and Related Problems
TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that to answer several questions of physical or engineering interest, it is necessary to know only the relatively simple elastic field inside the ellipsoid.
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The Phenomena of Rupture and Flow in Solids
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of surface scratches on the mechanical strength of solids, and some general conclusions were reached which appear to have a direct bearing on the problem of rupture, from an engineering standpoint, and also on the larger question of the nature of intermolecular cohesion.
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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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