Polymer Fracture

1. Front Matter

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2. Deformation and Fracture of High Polymers, Definition and Scope of Treatment

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   Pages 1-14

3. Structure and Deformation

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   Pages 15-39

4. Statistical, Continuum Mechanical, and Rate Process Theories of Fracture

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   Pages 40-68

5. Strength of Primary Bonds

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   Pages 69-86

6. Mechanical Excitation and Scission of a Chain

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   Pages 87-118

7. Identification of ESR Spectra of Mechanically Formed Free Radicals

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   Pages 119-139

8. Phenomenology of Free Radical Formation and of Relevant Radical Reactions (Dependence on Strain, Time, and Sample Treatment)

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   Pages 141-172

9. The Role of Chain Scission in Homogeneous Deformation and Fracture

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   Pages 173-250

10. Molecular Chains in Heterogeneous Fracture

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    Pages 251-320

11. Back Matter

    Pages 321-332

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This book on "Polymer Fracture" might as well have been called "Kinetic Theory of Polymer Fracture". The term "kinetic theory", however, needs some de­ finition or, at least, some explanation. A kinetic theory deals with and particu­ larly considers the effect of the existence and discrete size, of the motion and of the physical properties of molecules on the macroscopic behavior of an ensemble, gaseous or other. A kinetic theory of strength does have to consider additional aspects such as elastic and anelastic deformations, chemical and physical reactions, and the sequence and distribution of different disintegration steps. In the last fifteen years considerable progress has been made in the latter do­ mains. The deformation and rupture of molecular chains, crystals, and morphologi­ cal structures have been intensively investigated. The understanding of the effect of those processes on the strength of polymeric materials has especially been furthered by the development and application of spectroscopical methods (ESR, IR) and of the tools offracture mechanics. It is the aim of this book to relate the conventional and successful statistical, parametrical, and continuum mechanical treatment of fracture phenomena to new results on the behavior of highly stressed molecular chains.

• Bruch
• Energie
• Kunststoff
• Polymer
• entropy
• hybridization

• Laboratoire des Polymères, Département des Matériaux, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Suisse

  Hans-Henning Kausch-Blecken von Schmeling

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