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PUBLICATIONS

Challenges in Characterizing Sealant

Published

Author(s)

Christopher C. White, Donald L. Hunston

Abstract

Sealant is one of the very few major consumer products valued primarily for its rheological and adhesive properties. While, these materials may appear to be simple elastic solids, upon further examination, their behavior can be extremely complex. In this research, reasonable simplifications are developed to model the non-linear viscoelastic properties of cured sealant. Also included are modifications of the traditional instrumental design to allow for high throughput evaluation of a cured sealant s mechanical properties.
Citation
ANTEC Conference Proceedings
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

environmental exposure, high throughput, instrumentation, mechanical behavior, mullins effect, sealant, stress-relaxtion, stress-strain, Viscoelastic
Buildings and Construction and Fire

Citation

White, C. and Hunston, D. (2005), Challenges in Characterizing Sealant, ANTEC Conference Proceedings (Accessed October 13, 2025)

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Created September 14, 2005, Updated February 19, 2017
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