Polymer Engineering Science and Viscoelasticity An Introduction /

• Main Authors: Brinson, Hal F. (Author), Brinson, L. Catherine (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Polymers.; Continuum mechanics.; Nanotechnology.; Materials science.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.; Polymer Sciences.

This book provides a unified mechanics and materials perspective on polymers: both the mathematics of viscoelasticity theory as well as the physical mechanisms behind polymer deformation processes. Introductory material on fundamental mechanics is included to provide a continuous baseline for reader...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Stress and Strain Analysis and Measurement
• Characteristics, Applications and Properties of Polymers
• Polymerization and Classification
• Differential Constitutive Equations
• Hereditary Integral Representations of Stress and Strain
• Time and Temperature Behavior of Polymers
• Elementary Viscoelastic Stress Analysis for Bars and Beams
• Viscoelastic Stress Analysis in Two and Three Dimensions
• Nonlinear Viscoelasticity
• Rate and Time-Dependent Failure: Mechanics and Predictive Models.