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Informationen zum Autor Mariah Fox comes from a family of artists and teachers and grew up in rural New Mexico and Jamaica. She is an Addy Award winner with contributions to numerous books. Her company, Ital Art provides ongoing creative consultation and artwork for a variety of clients. Mariah enjoys teaching classes, writing on art movements, artists and art. She is currently an Associate Professor of Media Arts and leads the Visual Communication program at New Mexico Highlands University. Klappentext Why is it necessary to strike while the iron is hot? What makes a good liquid crystal display? Why is rubber so elastic? These questions can be answered through rheophysics, using the mechanics of continuous media at the macroscopic scale, and statistical mechanics and the physics of defects at the microscopic level. This book addresses problems involving the flow of matter, covering the main aspects of the mechanical response of fluids and solids to applied stress or strain. It includes the hydrodynamics of ordinary liquids, the elasticity and plasticity of solids, and the rheology of complex fluids such as suspensions, polymers and liquid crystals. Dislocations are described thoroughly, and special attention is given to instabilities. Concepts and physical properties are illustrated by numerous experiments, historical anecdotes, and applications to aeronautics, metallurgy, and geophysics, making this a valuable reference for researchers and graduate students in physics, engineering, and materials science. Zusammenfassung Addressing problems involving the flow of matter! this book covers the main aspects of the mechanical response of fluids and solids to applied stress or strain. Illustrated by numerous experiments! historical anecdotes and applications! this is a valuable reference for researchers and graduate students in physics! engineering! and materials science. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. General points on materials and their rheophysical behaviour; 2. Overview of the mechanics of continuous media; 3. Hydrodynamics of simple liquids; 4. Solid elasticity; 5. Defects, plasticity and fracture solids; 6. Rheology of isotropic viscoelastic materials (1); 7. Rheology of isotropic viscoelastic materials (2); 8. The rheology of liquid crystals; References; Notations; Index....
