ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
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- Chamberlin, Ralph
- Rajan, Subramaniam
- Oswald, Jay
- 1 Arizona State University
- 1 Li, Yiyang
- 1 Rajagopalan, Jagannathan
- 1 Solanki, Kiran
- 1 English
- 1 Public
- toughness
- semicrystalline polyethylene
- 1 Computational chemistry
- 1 Mechanical engineering
- 1 Polymer chemistry
- 1 morphology
- 1 polyurea
- 1 shock hugoniot
- more
- 1 structure-property relationship
- Dwarf Galaxies as Laboratories of Protogalaxy Physics: Canonical Star Formation Laws at Low Metallicity
- Evolutionary Genetics of CORL Proteins
- Social Skills and Executive Functioning in Children with PCDH-19
- Deep Domain Fusion for Adaptive Image Classification
- Software Defined Pulse-Doppler Radar for Over-The-Air Applications: The Joint Radar-Communications Experiment
The exceptional mechanical properties of polymers with heterogeneous structure, such as the high toughness of polyethylene and the excellent blast-protection capability of polyurea, are strongly related to their morphology and nanoscale structure. Different polymer microstructures, such as semicrystalline morphology and segregated nanophases, lead to coordinated molecular motions during deformation in order to preserve compatibility between the different material phases. To study molecular relaxation in polyethylene, a coarse-grained model of polyethylene was calibrated to match the local structural variable distributions sampled from supercooled atomistic melts. The coarse-grained model accurately reproduces structural properties, e.g., the local structure of both the amorphous and …
- Contributors
- Li, Yiyang, Oswald, Jay, Rajan, Subramaniam, et al.
- Created Date
- 2017