Mechanical Properties of Polymers and Composites

By L. Nielson and Lawrence E. Nielsen

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824789644
• ISBN13: 9780824789640
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.4"