TY - JOUR
AU - Boey, F. Y. C.
AB - JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE LETTERS 11 (1992) 67-68 Modelling the stress relaxation behaviour of an electromagnetically irradiated elastomer F. Y. C. BOEY Nanyang Technological Institute, Nangyang Avenue, Singapore 2263 made, so that a nonlinear approach, which implies a Recent results have indicated that polymer compo- sites can be viably cured using electromagnetic range of relaxation times, is necessary. For this microwave radiation [1]. Such a process would work, the Williams-Watts equation [9], which has however still require the use of a vacuum bagging been shown to be able to model nonlinear visco- system [2, 3], which utilises a silicone elastomer both elastic befiaviour of other polymers [10, 11], has as the bagging sheet as well as the seal rib fining. The been used to model the relaxation curves: former experiences a sustained tension effect during E(t) = Eo exp [- (t/t*) b] (1) curing, whilst the latter experiences a similar but compressive effect. Earlier reports have noted the where E(t) is the stress moduli at time t and E0 is effects of gamma radiation on some elastomeric the modulus calculated from the instantaneous seals [4, 5]. This paper attempts to model the stress stress-strain curve, at 50 mmmin -1 
TI - Modelling the stress relaxation behaviour of an electromagnetically irradiated elastomer
JF - Journal of Materials Science Letters
DO - 10.1007/BF00724600
DA - 1992-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/modelling-the-stress-relaxation-behaviour-of-an-electromagnetically-HazAXfVdl0
SP - 67
EP - 68
VL - 11
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -