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Direct observation of long chain enrichment in flow-induced nuclei from molecular dynamics simulations of bimodal blends (2021)
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Anwar, M., & Graham, R. S. (2021). Direct observation of long chain enrichment in flow-induced nuclei from molecular dynamics simulations of bimodal blends. Soft Matter, 2021(10), 2872-2882. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0sm01361g

Modelling of flow-induced nucleation in polymers suggest that long chains are enriched in nuclei, relative to their melt concentration. This enrichment has important consequences for the nucle-ation rate and mechanism, but cannot be directly observed... Read More about Direct observation of long chain enrichment in flow-induced nuclei from molecular dynamics simulations of bimodal blends.

Nonlinear shear of entangled polymers from nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (2019)
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Anwar, M., & Graham, R. S. (2019). Nonlinear shear of entangled polymers from nonequilibrium molecular dynamics. Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, 57(24), 1692-1704. https://doi.org/10.1002/polb.24904

This work aims to improve the use of Molecular Dynamics simulations of Kremer-Grest chains to inform future developments of models of entangled polymer dynamics. We perform non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations, under shear flow, for well en... Read More about Nonlinear shear of entangled polymers from nonequilibrium molecular dynamics.

Molecular dynamics simulations of crystal nucleation in entangled polymer melts under start-up shear conditions (2019)
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Anwar, M., & Graham, R. S. (2019). Molecular dynamics simulations of crystal nucleation in entangled polymer melts under start-up shear conditions. Journal of Rheology, 150(8), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5082244

Understanding the flow induced crystallisation (FIC) process is necessary due to its technological relevance to polymer processing. Polymer crystallisation controls the morphology of semi-crystalline polymers and hence the properties of the end produ... Read More about Molecular dynamics simulations of crystal nucleation in entangled polymer melts under start-up shear conditions.

Flexural capacity of bi-directional GFRP strengthened RC beams with end anchorages: Experimental and theoretical studies (2019)
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Gora, A. M., Jaganathan, J., Anwar, M. P., & Leung, H. (2019). Flexural capacity of bi-directional GFRP strengthened RC beams with end anchorages: Experimental and theoretical studies. International Journal of Structural Integrity, 10(2), 188-207. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijsi-04-2018-0021

This paper presents the results of experimental and theoretical studies on the flexural capacity of reinforced concrete (RC) beams strengthened using externally bonded bi-directional glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) composites and different end... Read More about Flexural capacity of bi-directional GFRP strengthened RC beams with end anchorages: Experimental and theoretical studies.