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.

Author: Robert F. Landel,Lawrence E. Nielsen
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 12/14/1993
Pages: 584
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.03lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.20w x 1.42d
ISBN: 9780824789640