Disclinations in a homogeneously deformed nematic elastomer

DOI10.1007/s00161-006-0027-4zbMath1162.76008OpenAlexW2055149773MaRDI QIDQ1018436

Bidhan C. Roy, Eliot Fried

Publication date: 20 May 2009

Published in: Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00161-006-0027-4

zbMATH Keywords

molecular conformationisotropic coredefective statesuniaxial states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Liquid crystals (76A15)

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