Viscoelasticity of Polymers Theory and Numerical Algorithms /

• Main Author: Cho, Kwang Soo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Springer Series in Materials Science, 241
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Polymers.; Fluids.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Fluid mechanics.; Materials science.; Polymer Sciences.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to polymer rheology with a focus on the viscoelastic characterization of polymeric materials. It contains various numerical algorithms for the processing of viscoelastic data, from basic principles to advanced examples which are hard to find in the exist...

Table of Contents:

• I Fundamental Principles
• 1 Preliminary Mathematics
• 2 Continuum Thermo-Mechanics
• 3 Statistical Mechanics
• 4 Polymer Physics
• II Linear Viscoelasticity
• 5 Theory of Linear Viscoelasticity
• 6 Numerical Methods
• 7 Viscoelastic Spectrum
• 8 Time-Temperature Superposition
• 9 Applications to Polymer Systems
• III Nonlinear Viscoelasticity
• 10 Nonlinear Constitutive Equations
• 11 Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear
• Appendix
• Subject Index.