edited by H. Henning Kausch, John A. Hassell, Robert I. Jaffee.
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Boston, MA :
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Imprint: Springer,
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1973.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introductory Lectures -- Progress in the Synthesis and Application of Polymers -- Mechanical Behavior of High Polymers - Overview and Historic Remarks -- Deformations and Molecular Motions in Polymers Above the Glass Transition Temperature -- On the Interconversion of Linear Viscoelastic Functions with Special Application to Shear Behavior in the Glass-Rubber Transition Region -- Materials with Memory -- Methods of Combustion Theory in the Mechanics of Deformation, Flow, and Fracture of Polymers -- Phenomenology -- On the Nonlinear Biaxial Stress-Strain Behavior of Rubberlike Polymers -- On the Phenomenology of Rubberlike Behavior -- Fracture and Fiber Formation of Polyethylene Crystals -- The Microstructure and Properties of Crazes -- Effects of Hydrostatic Pressure on the Deformation and Fracture of Polymers -- Attempt to Explain Crazing in Amorphous Thermoplastics and Adhesion Fractures in Semicrystalline Thermoplastics and Filled Polymers -- Molecular Descriptions of Deformation -- Rate Processes in the Plastic Deformation of Polymers -- Deformation of Cross-Linked Polymers Below Tg -- Time-Temperature Superposition in Heterophase Block Copolymers -- Load-Extension Curves and Fracture Toughness -- Deformation of Polymers as Explained by the Meander Model -- The Role of Intra- and Intermolecular Cohesion in Fracture Initiation of High Polymers -- Continuum Descriptions of Deformation -- Plastic Deformation of Crystalline Polymers in Solid-State Extrusion through a Tapered Die -- Nonlinear Behavior of Polyisobutylene Solutions -- The Viscoelastic-Plastic Behavior of a Ductile Polymer -- The Effect of Different Behavior in Tension than in Compression on the Mechanical Response of Polymeric Materials -- A Deformation Theory of Polymers -- Fracture -- Crack Growth and Failure in Rubbers -- Fast Fracture in PMMA -- Fracture Dynamics of Homolite-100 -- On the Steady Propagation of a Crack in a Viscoelastic Sheet: Experiments and Analysis -- The Role of Failure Criteria in the Fracture Analysis of Fiber/Matrix Composites -- Thermal and Environmental Effects in Craze Growth and Fracture -- Critical Issues -- Concluding Agenda Discussion: Critical Issues.