The coupling of chiral chains to mechanical distortions in elastomers

DOI10.1098/rspa.1999.0469zbMath0942.74004OpenAlexW2100768606WikidataQ60459277 ScholiaQ60459277MaRDI QIDQ4719872

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Publication date: 21 August 2000

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1999.0469

zbMATH Keywords

chiralityrubber elasticityjoint probability distributionpiezoelasticitycombinatoric lattice modelnematic networkrandom walk of chiral stepsRayleigh's method of random flights

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elasticity (74B20) Electromagnetic effects in solid mechanics (74F15) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Molecular, statistical, and kinetic theories in solid mechanics (74A25)

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