Thermomechanical Characterization and Modeling of Shape Memory Polymers

This work focuses on the thermomechanical characterization and constitutive model calibration of shape memory polymers (SMPs). These polymers have the ability to recover seemingly permanent large deformations under the appropriate thermomechanical load path. In this work, a contribution is made to b...

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Main Author: Volk, Brent L.
Other Authors: Lagoudas, Dimitris
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-690
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-690