Physics Of Rubber Elasticity 3rd Edition Treloar Lrg by Treloar, L.r.g. 9780198570271, 9780471225638, 9781615832309, 0198570279, 0471225630, 1615832300 instant download after payment.

This book provides a critical review of the equilibrium elastic properties of rubber, together with the kinetic-theory background. It is suitable for the non-specialist and the emphasis is on the physical reality embodied in the mathematical formulations. Polymer science had developed greatly since the Second Edition of this text in 1958, and the two main advances - refinements of the network theory and associated thermodynamic analysis, and the development of the phenomenological or non-molecular approach to the subject - are both reflected in the structure of this Third Edition.
Content:
Front Matter
Prefaces
• Table of Contents
1. General Physical Properties of Rubbers
2. Internal Energy and Entropy Changes on Deformation
3. The Elasticity of Long-Chain Molecules
4. The Elasticity of a Molecular Network
5. Experimental Examination of the Statistical Theory
6. Non-Gaussian Chain Statistics And Network Theory
7. Swelling Phenomena
8. Cross-Linking and Modulus
9. Photoelastic Properties of Rubbers
10. The General Strain: Phenomenological Theory
11. Alternative Forms of Strain-Energy Function
12. Large-Deformation Theory: Shear and Torsion
13. Thermodynamic Analysis of Gaussian Network
• References
Author Index
Subject Index