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Environmental Nanomechanical Testing of Polymers and Nanocomposites

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Nanomechanical Analysis of High Performance Materials

Part of the book series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications ((SMIA,volume 203))

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The ever-increasing popularity of nanomechanical testing is being accompanied by the development of more and more novel test techniques and adaptation of existing techniques to work in increasingly environmentally challenging test conditions. Considerable progress has been made and reliable mechanical properties of materials can now be obtained at a range of temperature and surrounding media, greatly aiding development for operation under these environmental conditions. In this chapter several of these developments are reviewed, focussing on their use in the non-ambient nanomechanical testing of polymers and nanocomposites.

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  1. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallic Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, China

    Jian Chen

  2. Micro Materials Ltd, Willow House, Yale Business Village, Ellice Way, Wrexham, LL13 7YL, UK

    Ben D. Beake & Gerard A. Bell

  3. School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

    Hanshan Dong

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Chen, J., Beake, B.D., Dong, H., Bell, G.A. (2014). Environmental Nanomechanical Testing of Polymers and Nanocomposites. In: Tiwari, A. (eds) Nanomechanical Analysis of High Performance Materials. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 203. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6919-9_4

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