Plastic Deformation of Semicrystalline Polyethylene under Extension, Compression, and Shear Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation

Plastic deformation of the stack of alternating crystal and amorphous layers typical of semicrystalline polyethylene is studied by molecular dynamics simulation. A previous investigation of the semicrystalline layered stack undergoing isochoric extension1 is extended here to include several new mode...

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Main Authors: Kim, Jun Mo, Locker, Rebecca, Rutledge, Gregory C.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Chemical Society (ACS) 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96081
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8137-1732