Mechanical Properties of Polymers and Composites

This text, now in its second edition, offers an up-to-date, expanded treatment of the behaviour of polymers with regard to material variables and test and use conditions. It highlights general principles, useful empirical rules and practical equations.;Detailing the specific behaviour of many common polymers, the text: places emphasis on time and frequency dependence over temperature dependence; uses contemporary molecular mechanisms to explain creep, stress relaxation, constant strain rate responses and crazing; provides explicit equations to predict responses; supplies a discussion of large deformation multiaxial responses; compares statistical and continuum theories on the same data set; and updates stress-strain behaviour and particulate filled systems.

List of contents

Mechanical Tests and Polymer Transitions * Elastic Moduli * Creep and Stress Relaxation * Dynamical Mechanical Properties * Stress-Strain Behaviour and Strength * Other mechanical Properties * Particulate-Filled Polymers * Fiber- Filled Composites and Other Composites.

About the author

Robert F. Landel, Lawrence E. Nielsen

Summary

Covers the behaviour of polymers with regard to material variables and test and use conditions. This book highlights general principles, useful empirical rules and practical equations. Detailing the specific behaviour of many common polymers, it places emphasis on time and frequency dependence over temperature dependence.

Product details

• Authors: Robert F Landel, Landel Robert F., Lawrence E Nielsen, Nielsen Lawrence E.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.1993
• EAN: 9780824789640
• ISBN: 978-0-8247-8964-0
• No. of pages: 584
• Weight: 928 g
• Series: Mechanical Engineering
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Textiles & Polymers, Materials science, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Materials Science / General, Engineering applications of polymers and composites, Plastics & polymers technology, Plastics and polymers