Isamu Riku1,*, Koji Mimura1
The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.26, No.3, pp. 1-1, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.09070
Abstract It is well known that the mechanical resistance of soft materials such as rubber and elastomer can be
improved by cross-linkages or fillers, which will lead to a construction of entangled structure of polymer
chains’ network. However, the correlation between the amount of cross-linkages or fillers with the
toughness strength of the resultant material has not been clarified. Therefore, in this study, we at first
construct a computational model for the resultant material with molecular dynamics method. Then, a series
of simulations are performed for the resultant materials with different amount of cross-linkages or fillers… More >