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D-Index
64
Citations
18188
World Ranking
5802
National Ranking
1493

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 1990 - Charles Goodyear Medal, American Chemical Society (ACS)

Overview

A. N. Gent is affiliated with the University of Akron in the United States. The scientist's career includes recognition by notable organizations in the field of materials and chemical sciences.

Notable awards include the Fellow status at the National Academy of Inventors received in 2012 and the Charles Goodyear Medal from the American Chemical Society (ACS) awarded in 1990.

Best Publications

  • A New Constitutive Relation for Rubber

    A. N. Gent

  • Internal Rupture of Bonded Rubber Cylinders in Tension

    A. N. Gent;P. B. Lindley

  • Effect of Wetting Liquids on the Strength of Adhesion of Viscoelastic Material

    A. N. Gent;J. Schultz

  • Engineering with rubber : how to design rubber components

    Alan N. Gent

  • Adhesion of viscoelastic materials to rigid substrates

    A. N. Gent;R. P. Petrich

  • The Compression of Bonded Rubber Blocks

    A. N. Gent;P. B. Lindley

  • Adhesion and Strength of Viscoelastic Solids. Is There a Relationship between Adhesion and Bulk Properties

    Unknown

  • Nucleation and Growth of Gas Bubbles in Elastomers

    A. N. Gent;D. A. Tompkins

  • Cut Growth and Fatigue of Rubbers. I. The Relationship between Cut Growth and Fatigue

    A. N. Gent;P. B. Lindley;A. G. Thomas

  • Failure Processes in Elastomers at or Near a Rigid Spherical Inclusion

    A. N. Gent;Byoungkyeu Park

  • Compression, bending, and shear of bonded rubber blocks

    A. N. Gent;E. A. Meinecke

  • The deformation of foamed elastic materials

    A. N. Gent;A. G. Thomas

  • Engineering with Rubber

    Alan N. Gent

  • Fracture mechanics and cavitation in rubber-like solids

    A. N. Gent;C. Wang

  • Mechanics of Foamed Elastic Materials

    A. N. Gent;A. G. Thomas

  • Elastic instabilities in rubber

    Alan Gent

  • On the Relation between Indentation Hardness and Young's Modulus

    A. N. Gent

  • Forms for the stored (strain) energy function for vulcanized rubber

    Unknown

  • Cavitation in Rubber: A Cautionary Tale

    A. N. Gent

  • Mechanisms of rubber abrasion

    A. N. Gent;C. T. R. Pulford

  • Effect of interfacial bonding on the strength of adhesion

    A. Ahagon;A. N. Gent

  • Peel Mechanics for an Elastic-Plastic Adherend

    A. N. Gent;G. R. Hamed

Frequent Co-Authors

Changwoon Nah
Changwoon Nah Jeonbuk National University
Shiao-Wei Kuo
Shiao-Wei Kuo National Sun Yat-sen University
Liqun Zhang
Liqun Zhang Xi'an Jiaotong University
Joong Hee Lee
Joong Hee Lee Jeonbuk National University
Joseph P. Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy University of Akron
Chang Kook Hong
Chang Kook Hong Chonnam National University
Ronald S. Rivlin
Ronald S. Rivlin Lehigh University

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