Mechanical response of polymers: an introduction

Preface 1. Discussion of response of a viscoelastic material 2. Constitutive equations for one-dimensional response of viscoelastic materials: mechanical analogs 3. Constitutive equations for one-dimensional linear response of a viscoelastic material 4. Some features of the linear response of viscoelastic materials 5. Histories with constant strain or stress rates 6. Sinusoidal oscillations 7. Constitutive equation for three dimensional linear isotropic viscoelastic materials 8. Axial load, bending and torsion 9. Dynamics of bodies with viscoelastic support 10. Boundary value problems for linear isotropic viscoelastic materials 11. Influence of temperature Appendices References Index.