Understanding Viscoelasticity

This textbook on viscoelasticity gives a comprehensive but concise introduction to the basics of rheology. It will appeal to advanced students, researchers and engineers.

Problems are organized into competency (C), difficult (D) and more difficult (H) problems. The idea is that students should be able to do all the C problems for a pass in this course. The book is concise but self-contained, and will be suitable for a one-semester course in viscoelasticity. Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Klappentext
Viscoelasticity (or rheology) is a highly mathematical subject, interfacing several disciplines, from applied mathematics to mechanics and engineering. Other books on rheology are usually comprehensive to such a degree that students find it hard to isolate the important physical principles and develop good analytical skills for solving useful engineering problems. In this book, the necessary background for understanding viscoelasticity is covered; both the continuum and microstructure approaches to modelling viscoelastic materials are discussed, since neither approach alone is sufficient. The book starts with tensor notation, to give students the basic working tools, then addresses kinematics and constitutive equations, and ends with the constitutive modelling of polymer solutions and suspensions. It also includes a series of problems of graded difficulty. It is self-contained and ideally suited for a one-semester course on viscoelasticity.

Inhalt

1. Tensor Notation.- 2. Rheological Properties.- 3. Kinematics and Equations of Balance.- 4. Constitutive Equation.- 5. Inelastic Models and Linear Viscoelasticity.- 6. Steady Viscometric Flows.- 7. Polymer Solutions.- 8. Suspensions.- References.