2 papers
physics.app-ph2017
Effect of compressibility and aspect ratio on performance of long elastic seals
Benjamin Druecke, David M. Parks, Anette E. Hosoi
Recent experiments show no statistical impact of seal length on the performance of long elastomeric seals in relatively smooth test fixtures. Motivated by these results, we analyti…
cond-mat.soft2015
A New Phenomenon: Sub-Tg, Solid-State, Plasticity-Induced Bonding in Polymers
Nikhil Padhye, David M. Parks, Bernhardt L. Trout +1
Polymer self-adhesion due to the interdiffusion of macromolecules has been an active area of research for several decades [70, 43, 62, 42, 72, 73, 41]. Here, we report a new phenom…