Structure and Properties of Particulate-Filled Polymer Composites: The Fractal Analysis (Chemistry Research and Applications Series) - Hardcover

Kozlov, G V; Yanovskii, Y G; Zaikov, G E

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1608769992 ISBN 13: 9781608769995

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers Inc, 2010

Synopsis

The interest in polymer composites research is due to their enlarged application. Filling with hard particles gives to polymers a number of desirable properties: increases hardness, decreases heat expansion coefficient, improves resistance to creep and fracture toughness. Difficulties in structure-properties relationships researching for polymer composites are due to their structure complexity. Till now, composites studies were conducted within the frameworks of continuum mechanics and thermodynamic conceptions. However, these conceptions applications does not allow satisfactory descriptions nor predictions of such materials properties. As a matter of fact, an experimental data set dictates one or another physical model of structure choice for composites macroscopic properties description.

Edition details

• Publisher: Nova Science Publishers Inc
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1608769992
• ISBN 13: 9781608769995
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 282