Fracture of Elastomeric Materials by Crosslink Failure

If an elastomeric material is subjected to sufficiently large deformations, it eventually fractures. There are two typical micromechanisms of failure in such materials: chain scission and crosslink failure. The chain scission failure mode is mainly observed in polymers with strong covalent crosslink...

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Main Authors: Mao, Yunwei, Anand, Lallit
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Published: ASME International 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118757
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