Introduction to the Mechanical Properties of Solid Polymers

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the mechanical behaviour of solid polymers. This book includes material on mechanical relaxations and anisotropy, composites modelling, non-linear viscoelasticity, yield behaviour and fracture of tough polymers.

List of contents

From the contents:
- Preface.
- 1 Structure of Polymers.
- 2 The Deformation of an Elastic Solid.
- 3 Rubber-like Elasticity.
- 4 Principles of Linear Viscoelasticity.
- 5 The Measurement of Viscoelastic Behaviour.
- 6 Experimental Studies of Linear Viscoelastic Behaviour as a Function of Frequency and Temperature: Time-Temperature Equivalence.
- 7 Anisotropic Mechanical Behaviour.
- 8 Polymer Composites: Macroscale and Microscale.
- 9 Relaxation Transitions: Experimental Behaviour and Molecular Interpretation.
- 10 Creep, Stress Relaxation and Non-linear Viscoelasticity.
- 11 Yielding and Instability in Polymers.
- 12 Breaking Phenomena.
- Appendix 1.
- Appendix 2.
- Answers to Problems.
- Index.

Product details

• Authors: J. Sweeney, I. M. Ward, I.m. Sweeney Ward, Rebecca Helen Helen Helen Helen He Ward
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2004
• EAN: 9780471496250
• ISBN: 978-0-471-49625-0
• No. of pages: 394
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Chemical engineering