Physics… With a Little Help From Chemistry

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Autor(a) principal: André, José Reinas
Data de Publicação: 2006
Outros Autores: José, Cruz Pinto
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10314/3402
Resumo: The model describes simple heating/cooling as well as the non-linear behaviour under forced excitations and accounts for a characteristic temperature-dependent, cooperative behaviour, according to the proposed cooperative segmental theory of molecular dynamics – CSTMD. The theory only assumes that segments may be defined within materials’ structures (e.g. a 6-bond crankshaft in a polymer chain backbone), that are able to associate in varying, temperature-dependent, numbers (n ≥ 1).