Structural and Mechanical Properties of Glassy Polymers

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Proposes a structural mechanics approach to analyzing and understanding the relationship between the structure and behavior of polymer glasses, for which few if any methods are now widely used. Interprets the temperature-induced relaxation of residual plastic deformation of the materials in terms of their structural inhomogeneity, which permits the advancement of the structural pattern for the deformation and a description of the development of physical and mechanical properties. Double spaced. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.