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Molecular Theory of Strength

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Henning H. Kausch
Henning H. Kausch*
Affiliation:
Polymer Laboratory, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology, 32, chemin de Bellerive CH-1007 Lausanne
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Abstract

Polymer strength depends on the nature of the constituting elements and their mechanical, thermal, and otherwise physical, but also chemical interaction. Some of these mechanisms are discussed in this paper; special attention is given to disentanglement and chain scission.

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