Rheology: Volume 1: Principles (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Invited Lectures.- PL Sketch for a History of Constitutive Relations.- IL 1.1 Biorheology.- IL 1.2 Anomalous Extensional Flow Effects in the Use of Commercial Viscometers.- IL 2.1 The Role of Rheology in Polymer Processing.- IL 2.2 Flow Birefringence in Polymer Rheometry.- IL 2.3° Viscoelasticity of Composite Materials.- IL 3.1° Molecular Models for the Rheology of Entangled Polymers.- IL 3.2 Perspectives on Kinetic Theories of Polymer Solutions and Their Use in Rheology.- IL 4.1 Rheology and Rheo-Optics of Polymer Liquid Crystals.- IL 4.2 Rheology of Suspensions.- IL 4.3° On Theories of Melt Fracture.- IL 5.1 Uniform Elongational Flow of Molten Polymers.- IL 5.2 Separation of Shear Thinning and Elastic Effects in Experimental Rheology.- IL 5.3 Chemical Engineering Problems in Rheologically Complex Fluids.- IL 6.1 The Glass Transition of Amorphous Polymers and the Free Volume.- IL 6.2 Survey of Measuring Techniques for the Determination of the Dynamic Moduli.- IL 7.1 Thermal Effects in Polymer Flow.- Theory.- TH 1.1° On the Optimal Control of Steady Rigid-Viscoplastic Flows with Friction Boundary Conditions.- TH 1.2 A Theory of the Effects of Pressure on Finite Elastic Shear.- TH 1.3° Computation of Large Strains in the Stimulation of Memory Fluids.- TH 1.4 Flow of a Polymerizing Fluid between Two Rotating Concentric Cylinders.- TH 1.5 Heat Transfer in Wedge-Flow of a Micropolar Fluid.- TH 1.6 Stretching the Jeffreys Liquid: Stressing, Creep and Recovery.- TH 1.7° Molecular Theory of Lamellarly Structured Fluids.- TH 2.1 Micromolecules in Nonhomogeneous Velocity Gradient Fields: Rheological and Diffusion Phenomena.- TH 2.2 Macromolecular Modeling: Numerical Calculations.- TH 2.3 Mechanochemical Degradation of Macro Molecules during Laminar Flow.- TH 2.4 Calculations on the Doi-Edwards Model for Concentrated Polymer Systems.- TH 2.5 Interpretation of the Stress Relaxation Behavior of Plasticized PVC Using a Cooperative Model.- TH 2.6 Numerical Calculation of Relaxation Distributors.- TH 2.7° Topological Aspects of Flow and Deformation in Polymer Composites.- TH 3.1 A Continuum-Discrete Mechanical Model of Two-Phase Mixture Viscoelasticity.- TH 3.2 On some Global Identification Problems in the Rheology of Solids.- TH 3.3 A Macroscopic Theory of Elastic Anisotropic Dieletrics.- TH 3.4 Theoretical and Numerical Studies of Anelastic Materials.- TH 3.5° On Thermal Effects in Viscoelastic Fluids with Microstructure.- TH 3.6° A Viscometric Investigation of the Polymerization of Lactams.- TH 3.7° Variational Investigation of Material Stability Applied to Nonlinear Viscoelastic Substances.- Author Index.