Ali S. Argon

The Physics of Deformation and Fracture of Polymers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A physical, mechanism-based presentation of the plasticity and fracture of polymers, covering industrial scale applications through to nanoscale biofluidic devices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 534
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1092g
• ISBN-13: 9780521821841
• ISBN-10: 0521821843
• Artikelnr.: 36137915

Autorenporträt

Ali S. Argon is Quentin Berg Professor Emeritus at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is recognized world-wide as an authority on the mechanical behaviour of engineering solids, he has published over 300 papers and three books and he is one of the internationally most widely cited authors in materials science. He has received a number of honours and awards including membership in the US National Academy of Engineering, Fellowship in the American Physical Society, Distinguished Life Membership in the Sigma Alpha Mu (International Professional Society of Materials and Engineering), the Heyn Medal of the German Materials Society and a US Senior Scientist Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Society for Research in Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Structure of non-polymeric glasses
2. Structure of solid polymers
3. Overview of deformation and fracture mechanisms
4. Small strain elastic response
5. Linear visco-elasticity of polymers
6. Rubber elasticity
7. Inelastic behaviour of non-polymeric glasses
8. Inelastic behaviour of glassy polymers
9. Plasticity of semi-crystalline polymers
10. Deformation instabilities in extensional plastic flow of polymers
11. Crazing in glassy homo and hetero polymers
12. Fracture of polymers
13. Toughening of brittle polymers.