Mechanical Properties of Polymers and Composites

Second Edition 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.

Specific Behaviour of Polymers

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.