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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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Preparation and Characterization of Graphene Oxide Paper
Dmitriy A. Dikin,Sasha Stankovich,Eric Zimney,Richard D. Piner,Geoffrey Dommett,Guennadi Evmenenko,SonBinh T. Nguyen,Rodney S. Ruoff +7 more
TL;DR: Graphene oxide paper is reported, a free-standing carbon-based membrane material made by flow-directed assembly of individual graphene oxide sheets that outperforms many other paper-like materials in stiffness and strength.
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Small but strong: A review of the mechanical properties of carbon nanotube–polymer composites
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the progress to date in the field of mechanical reinforcement of polymers using nanotubes is presented, and the most promising processing methods for mechanical reinforcement are discussed.
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Anomalous diffusion models and their properties: non-stationarity, non-ergodicity, and ageing at the centenary of single particle tracking.
TL;DR: This Perspective is intended as a guidebook for both experimentalists and theorists working on systems, which exhibit anomalous diffusion, and pays special attention to the ergodicity breaking parameters for the different anomalous stochastic processes.
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Structural and mechanical properties of polymer nanocomposites
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the processing, structure, and mechanical properties of polymer nanocomposites reinforced with respective layered silicates, ceramic nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes is presented.
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Biodegradable composites based on lignocellulosic fibers—An overview
TL;DR: An overview of the developments made in the area of biodegradable composites, in terms of market, processing methods, matrix reinforcement systems, morphology, properties and product development is presented in this article.
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A Method of Measuring some Dynamic Elastic Constants and its Application to the Study of High Polymers
TL;DR: In this paper, the velocity of propagation and attenuation of longitudinal sound oscillations in high polymer filaments was measured in terms of several theories of the elasticity of high polymers, and the constants of the several equations considered are calculated from the data.
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Visco‐Elasticity of Rubber
TL;DR: In this article, a theory for the visco-elastic behavior of rubber in the frequency range above that at which creep is important and below that it behaves like a hard solid.
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The Variation of the Fracture Energy of Brittle Plastics with Temperature
TL;DR: In this paper, a crack is propagated down the length of a rectangular specimen under controlled conditions and the variation of the crack opening with length determined, from these results the fracture energy may be calculated.
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Vibroscope Measurements of the Elastic Moduli of Nylon 66 and Dacron Filaments of Various Draw Ratios
TL;DR: In this paper, the Young's modulus was derived from bending and the torsional modulus of nylon 66 and Dacron filaments ranging in draw ratio from one (undrawn) to six.
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Dynamic mechanical properties of polymethyl acrylate
TL;DR: In this article, the real and imaginary components of the complex compliance have been measured between 30 and 3000 cycles/sec. in the temperature range 25° to 89°C in polymethyl acrylate of weight-average molecular weight 2.2 × 106.