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Showcasing vital engineering applications to transient and dynamic pertubations of macromolecular materials, structural recovery’s role in mechanical responses in the glassy state, and viscoelastic parameters that condition the non-Newtonian behaviour of polymers, this work presents a systematic account of the responses of macromolecular materials to mechanical force fields. It focuses on the most important features of the linear stress-strain relationships for ideal solids and liquids. Structure of polymers; crystalline and amorphous states in polymers; rubber elasticity; stress-strain relations for ideal solids and ideal liquids; linear viscoelasticity – viscoelastic functions; dynamic viscoelastic functions; experimental determination of viscoelastic properties; viscoelastic behaviour of polymers above the glass-transition; retardation and relaxation spectra; viscoelastic models; molecular models of the viscoelastic polymers; viscoelasticity of glassy and semicrystalline polymers; flow behaviour of polymer melts and solutions; yield crazing and fracture; reinforced polymers; multiaxial analysis of linear viscoelastic stress; flexion and torsion of viscoelastic rods.
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