Table of Contents:
  • Introduction.- Stress and Strain Analysis and Measurement.- Characteristics, Applications and Properties of Polymers.- Polymerizaton and Classification.- Differential Constitutive Equations.- Hereditary Integral Representations of Stress and Strain.- Time-Temperature-Superpostion-Principle (TTSP).- Elementary Viscoelastic Stress Analysis for Bars and Beams.- Viscoelastic Stress Analysis in Two and Three Dimensions.- Nonlinear Viscoelasticity.- Viscoelastic-Pasticity.- Failure Mechanisms and Analytical Approaches.- Bibliography.