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Computer Simulation of Stress-Strain Behavior in Polymeric Materials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Robert Cook
Robert Cook*
Affiliation:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550
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Abstract

We have developed a model of polymeric materials which includes many of the features of condensed-phase polymer chain dynamics, central among them chain relaxation by conformational motion. The model consists of a number of chains of particles which are connected by bonds with double-welled potentials to approximate the energetics of conformational motion. Interactions between particles on adjacent chains are modeled by shortrange repulsive potentials. We have examined the stress-strain behavior of the model using molecular dynamics simulations and find qualitative agreement with the observed experimental behavior of polymeric materials.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 79: Symposium F – Scattering, Deformation and Fracture in Polymers , 1986 , 409
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1987

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