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Fracture Mechanics of Low Molecular Weight Polymers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 February 2011
Abstract
A novel analysis is presented to explain mechanistic aspects of the fracture of low molecular weight polymers. The fracture energy is calculated as a function of the mean interpenetration distance of a polymer chain which has been derived from the solution of the Fokker-Planck equation. Experimental results with monodisperse polystyrene have been used to validate the theory.
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