With increasing use of polymers in sophisticated industrial applications, it is essential that mechanical engineers have a solid understanding of these compounds. This text provides a thorough introduction to polymers from a mechanical engineering perspective, treating stresses and deformations in structural components made of polymers. The authors discuss the time-dependent response of polymers and its implications for mechanical response; mechanical response for both time-dependent and frequency-dependent material properties; and the application of the stress-strain-time relation to...
With increasing use of polymers in sophisticated industrial applications, it is essential that mechanical engineers have a solid understanding of thes...
A unified treatment of the mechanics of mixtures of several constituents within the context of continuum mechanics, which takes into account the possibility of chemical reactions and interconversion of the constituents.
A unified treatment of the mechanics of mixtures of several constituents within the context of continuum mechanics, which takes into account the possi...
The authors have backgrounds which are ideally suited for writing this book. The late C. Truesdell is well known for his monumental treatises on continuum thermomechanics. K.R. Rajagopal has made many important contributions to the mechanics of continua in general, and to nonlinear fluids in particular. They have produced a compact, moderately general book which encompasses many fluid models of current interest The book is written very clearly and contains a large number of exercises and their solutions. The level of mathematics is that commonly taught to undergraduates in mathematics...
The authors have backgrounds which are ideally suited for writing this book. The late C. Truesdell is well known for his monumental treatises o...
