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Combined roles of temperature and humidity on cure of a silicone elastomer (2020)
Journal Article
Elsmore, M. T., & De Focatiis, D. S. (2021). Combined roles of temperature and humidity on cure of a silicone elastomer. Polymer Testing, 93, 106967. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymertesting.2020.106967

A study of the cure kinetics of a one-part water-scavenging silicone elastomer was carried out under conditions of controlled humidity and temperature using rectangular bars subjected to oscillatory torsional shear. Characteristic cure times were obt... Read More about Combined roles of temperature and humidity on cure of a silicone elastomer.

Modeling non-linear rheology of PLLA: comparison of Giesekus and Rolie-Poly constitutive models (2020)
Journal Article
Stępień, M., Choong, G. Y., De Focatiis, D. S., & Figiel, Ł. (2020). Modeling non-linear rheology of PLLA: comparison of Giesekus and Rolie-Poly constitutive models. International Journal of Biobased Plastics, 2(1), 13-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/24759651.2020.1808367

Rheological models for biobased plastics can assist in predicting optimum processing parameters in industrial forming processes for biobased plastics and their composites such as film blowing, or injection stretch-blow molding in the packaging indust... Read More about Modeling non-linear rheology of PLLA: comparison of Giesekus and Rolie-Poly constitutive models.

A phenomenological constitutive model for the viscoelastic deformation of elastomers (2020)
Journal Article
Annarasa, V., Popov, A. A., & De Focatiis, D. S. A. (2020). A phenomenological constitutive model for the viscoelastic deformation of elastomers. Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11043-020-09452-2

This study proposes a one-dimensional constitutive model for elastomeric materials based on recent observations regarding the separation of elastic and viscous contributions in uniaxial cyclic tensile experiments on EPDM rubber. The focus is on captu... Read More about A phenomenological constitutive model for the viscoelastic deformation of elastomers.

Intrinsic dependence of ice adhesion strength on surface roughness (2020)
Journal Article
Memon, H., Liu, J., De Focatiis, D. S., Choi, K.-S., & Hou, X. (2020). Intrinsic dependence of ice adhesion strength on surface roughness. Surface and Coatings Technology, 385, Article 125382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2020.125382

The roles of surface roughness on icephobicity including ice adhesion strength have been long debated in icephobicity studies. However, the direct/systematic influence of surface roughness on ice adhesion strength while keeping other surface characte... Read More about Intrinsic dependence of ice adhesion strength on surface roughness.