Title:	Viscoelasticity of Polymers
Authors:	Soo Cho, Kwang
Keywords:	Chemistry
Issue Date:	2016
Publisher:	Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
Description:	Viscoelasticity or rheology is important in polymer science and engineering because it plays a crucial role in production and characterization of polymeric materials. Understanding the viscoelasticity of polymers requires knowledge of various disciplines such as continuum mechanics, thermodynamics, advanced applied mathematics, polymer physics, and statistical mechanics. Rheology of polymers is studied by the researchers from various fields such as polymer scientists, mechanical engineers, chemical engineers, physicists, and chemists. Hence, it is hard to expect that a newcomer to the field of polymer viscoelasticity would be familiar with such diverse disciplines. From this viewpoint, one may feel the necessity of a book which addresses basic sciences for polymer viscoelasticity as possible as many. Examples of such comprehensive books of rheology are “Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids, volume I and II” written by Bird and coauthors, and “Engineering Rheology” written by Tanner. The book of Bird and coauthors does not contain numerical methods for nonlinear viscoelastic flows while the book of Tanner deals with it. Even though both books are comprehensive rheology books, in the author’s opinion, the former is focused on development of constitutive equation while the latter is oriented to the application of constitutive equation to polymer processing. Because it is practically impossible to write a comprehensive book of rheology which contains everything of rheology, most famous books of rheology have their own orientation indicating authors’ expertise, with addressing sufficient amount of basic knowledges. The author intends to write a comprehensive rheology book with the orientation to the identification of the rheological properties of polymers from their experimental data. This has been one of the themes of the author’s research for recent 10 years.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/74644
ISBN:	978-94-017-7564-9
Appears in Collections:	Chemistry

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