Providing an updated and comprehensive account of the properties
of solid polymers, the book covers all aspects of mechanical
behaviour. This includes finite elastic behavior, linear
viscoelasticity and mechanical relaxations, mechanical anisotropy,
non-linear viscoelasicity, yield behavior and fracture. New to this
edition is coverage of polymer nanocomposites, and molecular
interpretations of yield, e.g. Bowden, Young, and Argon.
The book begins by focusing on the structure of polymers,
including their chemical composition and physical structure.
It goes on to discuss the mechanical properties and behaviour of
polymers, the statistical molecular theories of the rubber-like
state and describes aspects of linear viscoelastic behaviour, its
measurement, and experimental studies.
Later chapters cover composites and experimental behaviour,
relaxation transitions, stress and yielding. The book concludes
with a discussion of breaking phenomena.

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