Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Front Cover; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Contents; 1. Mechanical Tests and Polymer Transitions; 2. Elastic Moduli; 3. Creep and Stress Relaxation; 4. Dynamic Mechanical Properties; 5. Stress-Strain Behavior and Strength; 6. Other Mechanical Properties; 7. Particulate-Filled Polymers; 8. Fiber-Filled Composites and Other Composites; Appendixes.

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.;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.