Rubber and Rubber Balloons Paradigms of Thermodynamics /

• Main Authors: Müller, Ingo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Strehlow, Peter (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2004.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 637
• Subjects: Continuum physics.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Engineering.; Mechanics.; Mechanics, Applied.; Classical and Continuum Physics.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Engineering, general.; Solid Mechanics.

Experiments with rubber balloons and rubber sheets have led to surprising observations, some of them hitherto unknown or not previously described in the literature. In balloons, these phenomena are due to the non-monotonic pressure-radius characteristic which makes balloons a subject of interest to...

Table of Contents:

• Stability of Two Rubber Balloons
• Kinetic Theory of Rubber
• Non-linear Elasticity
• Biaxial Stretching of a Rubber Membrane
• Stability of a Single Balloon. Stabilization
• Stepwise Inflation of a Balloon
• Inflation and Deflation of Two Balloons. Hysteresis
• Many Balloons. Emergence of a Pseudoelastic Hysteresis
• Crystallization of Rubber
• Historical Notes.