E-grāmata: Mechanical Properties of Polymers and Composites

Revised, updated, and expanded edition of a reference-text that discusses the mechanical properties of polymers at the elementary to intermediate level, for students and for scientists, engineers, and managers who are just moving into the polymers and polymer composites field. The eight chapters address mechanical tests and polymer transitions; elastic moduli; creep and stress relaxation; dynamical mechanical properties; stress-strain behavior and strength; other mechanical properties; particulate-filled polymers; and fiber-filled composites and other composites. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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.