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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2011
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.