Strong materials – a structural view of material strength down to a molecular scale: Concept of a novel strong and extremely light weight molecular space frame-polymer
✍ Scribed by R. Marissen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 231 KB
- Volume
- 37
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0933-5137
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The paper presents the concept of a novel very low density polymer with a rather high stiffness and possibly a high strength. The polymer molecular structure is related to a macroscopic structural engineering principle, a static (over-) determined space frame. Before describing the molecular space frame in detail, it is discussed how and when macroscopic mechanical principles can be applied to molecular structures. It will be made plausible that this can be done to a large extent. In that way a material with an extremely fine aerogel-like structure can be created, showing a very low density and a high stiffness to density-ratio.