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Fluid effects in polymers and polymeric composites /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weitsman, Yechiel
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, [2012]
Series:Mechanical engineering series (Berlin, Germany)
Subjects:
Polymeric composites > Mechanical properties.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background to polymers and composites
  • 3. Fluid ingress processes, basic and preliminaries
  • 4. Fluid sorption data and modeling
  • 5. Diffusion models
  • 6. Hygrothermal viscoelastic response
  • 7. Effects of fluids on mechanical properties and performance
  • 8. Sea water effects on foam-cored sandwich structures
  • 9. Special issues
  • 10. Concluding remarks.