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Thermodynamically-Consistent Multiscale Constitutive Modeling of Glassy Polymer Materials

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IUTAM Symposium on Modelling Nanomaterials and Nanosystems

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Abstract

The multiscale modeling of polymer-based materials has many challenges that not yet been fully addressed in the literature. These challenges are summarized and discussed. A particular challenge is the modeling of the large distribution of mi-crostates that exist in many bulk engineering polymer materials. A multiscale modeling approach is proposed to predict the bulk Young's modulus of polymers using a series of molecular models of individual polymer microstates and a statistics-based micromechanical modeling method. The method is applied to polyimide and polycarbonate material systems.

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Valavala, P.K., Odegard, G.M. (2009). Thermodynamically-Consistent Multiscale Constitutive Modeling of Glassy Polymer Materials. In: Pyrz, R., Rauhe, J.C. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Modelling Nanomaterials and Nanosystems. IUTAM Bookseries, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9557-3_6

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