Fracture of polymer gels

L Benguigui

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1999, vol. 270, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Experimental results of fracture of polyacrylic gels are presented for different amounts of polymer and cross-link agent. A simple qualitative analysis permits to interpret the main features of the fracture. The fracture stress as a function of the magnitude of the amount of cross-link molecules exhibits a maximum and the elongation at fracture is proportional to the inverse of the square root of the amount of cross-link molecules.

Keywords: Fracture; Polymer gels (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(99)00128-4

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