Description
Book SynopsisViscoelastic behavior reflects the combined viscous and elastic responses, under mechanical stress, of materials which are intermediate between liquids and solids in character.
Table of ContentsThe Nature of Viscoelastic Behavior.
Illustrations of Viscoelastic Behavior of Polymeric Systems.
Exact Interrelations among the Viscoelastic Functions.
Approximate Interrelations among the Linear ViscoelasticFunctions.
Experimental Methods for Viscoelastic Liquids.
Experimental Methods for Soft Viscoelastic Solids and Liquids ofHigh Viscosity.
Experimental Methods for Hard Viscoelastic Solids.
Experimental Methods for Bulk Measurements.
Dilute Solutions: Molecular Theory and Comparisons withExperiments.
Molecular Theory for Undiluted Amorphous Polymers and ConcentratedSolutions;
Networks and Entanglements.
Dependence of Viscoelastic Behavior on Temperature andPressure.
The Transition Zone from Rubberlike to Glasslike Behavior.
The Plateau and Terminal Zones in Uncross-Linked Polymers.
Cross-Linked Polymers and Composite Systems.
The Glassy State.
Crystalline Polymers.
Concentrated Solutions, Plasticized Polymers, and Gels.
Viscoelastic Behavior in Bulk (Volume) Deformation.
Applications to Practical Problems.
Appendices.
Author & Subject Indexes.
