Orienting Polymers: Proceedings of a Workshop held at the IMA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis March 21–26, 1983

Kurt F. Wissbrun (auth.), Jerald L. Ericksen (eds.)0-387-13340-2

Table of contents :
Orientation development in liquid crystal polymers….Pages 1-26
A thermodynamic view of order parameters for liquid crystals….Pages 27-36
Orientation and motion at a polymer-polymer interface: Interdiffusion of fluorescent-labelled macromolecules….Pages 37-45
The necking of semicrystalline polymers in tension….Pages 46-63
Discontinuous response in viscoelastic bars….Pages 64-75
A phenomenological theory of the mechanics of cold drawing….Pages 76-142
Theory for the cold-drawing of polymers….Pages 143-161
A mathematical afterthought….Pages 162-166
Erratum….Pages 167-167