Polymer Engineering Science and Viscoelasticity [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2016] Adriana Gregorova, Michal Machovsky et al.

Polymer engineering is generally an engineering field that designs, analyzes, and/ or modifies polymer materials. Polymer engineering covers aspects of petrochemical industry, polymerization, structure and characterization of polymers, properties of polymers, compounding and processing of polymers and description of major polymers, structure property relations and applications. Viscoelasticity is the property of materials that exhibit both viscous and elastic characteristics when undergoing deformation. This book envisages a unified mechanics and materials perspective on polymers; both the mathematics of viscoelasticity theory as well as the physical mechanisms behind polymer deformation processes.