This book provides a critical review of the equilibrium elastic properties of rubber, together with the kinetic-theory background. It is suitable for the non-specialist and the emphasis is on the physical reality embodied in the mathematical formulations. Polymer science had developed greatly since the second edition of this text in 1958, and the two main advances - the refinements of the network theory and associated thermodynamic analysis, and the development of
the phenomenological or non-molecular approach to the subject - are both reflected in the structure of this third edition.
- ISBN10 0198570279
- ISBN13 9780198570271
- Publish Date 20 October 2005 (first published 11 December 1975)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Edition 3rd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 324
- Language English