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Thermophysical Properties of Polymers

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  • © 1992

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  1. Yuli K. Godovsky

    1. Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry, Moscow, USSR

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. Thermal Properties of Polymers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Heat Capacity

      • Yuli K. Godovsky
      Pages 3-42

    3. Thermal Conductivity

      • Yuli K. Godovsky
      Pages 43-73

    4. Thermal Expansion

      • Yuli K. Godovsky
      Pages 75-106

    5. Experimental Methods and Instrumentation

      • Yuli K. Godovsky
      Pages 107-124

  3. Thermal Behavior of Polymers under Mechanical Deformation and Fracture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Thermomechanics of Glassy and Crystalline Polymers

      • Yuli K. Godovsky
      Pages 127-162

    3. Thermomechanics of Molecular Networks and Rubberlike Materials

      • Yuli K. Godovsky
      Pages 163-210

    4. Thermodynamic Behavior of Solid Polymers in Plastic Deformation and Cold Drawing

      • Yuli K. Godovsky
      Pages 211-248

    5. Thermal Behavior of Solid Polymers During Fracture

      • Yuli K. Godovsky
      Pages 249-270

    6. Experimental Methods and Instrumentation

      • Yuli K. Godovsky
      Pages 271-296

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 297-302
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Among various branches of polymer physics an important position is occupied by that vast area, which deals with the thermal behav­ ior and thermal properties of polymers and which is normally called the thermal physics of polymers. Historically it began when the un­ usual thermo-mechanical behavior of natural rubber under stretch­ ing, which had been discovered by Gough at the very beginning of the last century, was studied 50 years later experimentally by Joule and theoretically by Lord Kelvin. This made it possible even at that time to distinguish polymers from other subjects of physical investigations. These investigation laid down the basic principles of solving the key problem of polymer physics - rubberlike elasticity - which was solved in the middle of our century by means of the statistical thermodynamics applied to chain molecules. At approx­ imately the same time it was demonstrated, by using the methods of solid state physics, that the low temperature dependence of heat capacity and thermal expansivity of linear polymers should fol­ low dependencies different from that characteristic of nonpolymeric solids. Finally, new ideas about the structure and morphology of polymers arised at the end of the 1950s stimulated the development of new thermal methods (differential scanning calorimetry, defor­ mation calorimetry), which have become very powerful instruments for studying the nature of various states of polymers and the struc­ tural heterogeneity.

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  • Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry, Moscow, USSR

    Yuli K. Godovsky

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