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Mechanical properties of solid polymers

I. M. Ward
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A concise, self-contained introduction to solid polymers, the mechanics of their behavior and molecular and structural interpretations can be found in this article, which provides extended coverage of recent developments in rubber elasticity, relaxation transitions, non-linear viscoelastic behavior, anisotropic mechanical behavior, yield behavior of polymers and other fields.
Abstract
A concise, self-contained introduction to solid polymers, the mechanics of their behavior and molecular and structural interpretations. This updated edition provides extended coverage of recent developments in rubber elasticity, relaxation transitions, non-linear viscoelastic behavior, anisotropic mechanical behavior, yield behavior of polymers, breaking phenomena, and other fields.

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Present status of the rubber elasticity theory

TL;DR: The development of the rubber elasticity theory is reviewed in this paper, with particular emphasis on the recent generalization of the elastic equation of state to the case where the chains display changes in internal energy with change in conformation and to the correlation between the elastic behavior of a crosslinked amorphous polymer and its dilute solution properties.
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On the viscoelastic properties of crystalline high polymers

TL;DR: In this article, a simple time-temperature superposition method is also available for the viscoelastic behaviors of polytrifluorochloroethylene and nylon 6 under several conditions.
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Fracture-mechanics analysis of fatigue-crack propagation in polymethylmethacrylate

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the rate of growth of fatigue cracks in polymethylmethacrylate is constant if the range of crack-tip stress-intensity factored in.
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Determination of Relaxation Spectra from Damping Measurements

F C Roesler, +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a method for the determination of the relaxation spectrum from the data furnished by dynamical experiments, and in particular from the damping (imaginary part of the complex modulus) as a function of frequency, is presented.
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Stress as a Reduced Variable: Stress Relaxation of SBR Rubber at Large Strains

TL;DR: In this article, a modified Hooke's law with a time dependent modulus was proposed, where f(α) is an appropriate function of the strain and A = 0.40.