Crack Formation and Propagation in Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Polymer Liquid Crystals

In recent papers we have used statistical mechanics to predict multiple phase formation in polymer liquid crystals (PLCs). [1,2] Now we have performed molecular dynamics simulations of PLC copolymers as materials consisting of LC islands in flexible matrices. A method for creating such materials on...

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Main Author: Brostow, Witold (author)
Other Authors: Cunha, A. M. (author), Quintanilla, John (author), Simões, Ricardo (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2002
Subjects:
Computer modeling
Fracture
Polymer liquid crystals (PLC)
Structure-property relations
molecular dynamics
Science & Technology
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/212
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/212

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http://hdl.handle.net/1822/212

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