Mechanical Properties of Polymers and Composites

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 deformation multiaxial responses; compares statistical and continuum theories on the same data set; and updates stress-strain behaviour and particulate filled systems.