1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910504291903321

Autore

Strobel P. A (Philip A.)

Titolo

Salzburgers and Their Descendants / by P.A. Strobel, with foreword, appendix, and index by Edward D. Wells, Sr. ; with a new foreword by Russell C. Kleckley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2021., : University of Georgia Press

Athens

ISBN

0-8203-6001-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource xiii, 318 pages) : : illustrations

Disciplina

929.20973

Soggetti

HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

Salzburgers

Salzburgers - Georgia

History

Electronic books.

Georgia Ebenezer (Effingham County)

Georgia

Ebenezer (Effingham County, Ga.) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original ed. with t.p. reading: The Salzburgers and their descendants; being the history of a colony of German (Lutheran) Protestants, who emigrated to Georgia in 1734, and settled at Ebenezer ... Baltimore, T. Newton, Kurtz, 1855.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910146358103321

Titolo

Chemometrics and intelligent laboratory systems

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., 1986-

ISSN

1873-3239

Soggetti

Chemistry - Statistical methods

Computation laboratories

Mathematical models

Mathematical models - Periodicals

Mathematics

Chemistry, Analytic

Chemistry Techniques, Analytical

Statistics as Topic

Chimie - Méthodes statistiques

Centres de traitement de l'information

Modèles mathématiques - Périodiques

Modèles mathématiques

Mathématiques

Periodicals.

Periodical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Some issues also have distinctive theme titles.

Sommario/riassunto

"Chemometrics and intelligent laboratory systems publishes original research papers, short communications, reviews, tutorials and software descriptions reporting on novel developments in techniques for chemistry and related disciplines which are characterised by the application of statistical and computer methods."



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961917503321

Autore

Warner Mark <1952-2021, >

Titolo

Liquid crystal elastomers / / M. Warner and E. M. Terentjev

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

1-383-02455-3

1-281-34603-9

0-19-152363-1

Edizione

[Rev. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (422 p.)

Collana

International series of monographs on physics ; ; 120.

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

530.4/29

530.429

Soggetti

Liquid crystals

Elastomers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 A bird's eye view of liquid crystal elastomers; 2 Liquid crystals; 2.1 Ordering of rod and disc fluids; 2.2 Nematic order; 2.3 Free energy and phase transitions of nematics; 2.4 Molecular theory of nematics; 2.5 Distortions of nematic order; 2.6 Transitions driven by external fields; 2.7 Anisotropic viscosity and dissipation; 2.8 Cholesteric liquid crystals; 2.9 Smectic liquid crystals; 3 Polymers, elastomers and rubber elasticity; 3.1 Configurations of polymers; 3.2 Liquid crystalline polymers; 3.2.1 Shape of liquid crystalline polymers; 3.2.2 Frank elasticity of nematic polymers

3.3 Classical rubber elasticity3.4 Manipulating the elastic response of rubber; 3.5 Finite extensibility and entanglements in elastomers; 4 Classical elasticity; 4.1 Deformation tensor and Cauchy-Green strain; 4.2 Non-linear and linear elasticity; 4.3 Geometry of deformations and rotations; 4.3.1 Rotations; 4.3.2 Shears and their decomposition; 4.3.3 Square roots and polar decomposition of tensors; 4.4 Compressibility of rubbery networks; 5 Nematic elastomers; 5.1 Structure and examples of nematic elastomers; 5.2 Stress-optical coupling; 5.3 Polydomain textures and alignment by stress

7 Soft elasticity7.1 Director anchoring to the bulk; 7.1.1 Director



rotation without strain; 7.1.2 Coupling of rotations to pure shear; 7.2 Soft elasticity; 7.2.1 Soft modes of deformation; 7.2.2 Principal symmetric strains and body rotations; 7.2.3 Forms of the free energy allowing softness; 7.3 Optimal deformations; 7.3.1 A practical method of calculating deformations; 7.3.2 Stretching perpendicular to the director; 7.4 Semi-soft elasticity; 7.4.1 Example: random copolymer networks; 7.4.2 A practical geometry of semi-soft deformation; 7.4.3 Experiments on long, semi-soft strips

7.4.4 Unconstrained elastomers in external fields7.5 Semi-soft free energy and stress; 7.6 Thermomechanical history and general semi-softness; 7.6.1 Thermomechanical history dependence; 7.6.2 Forms of the free energy violating softness; 8 Distortions of nematic elastomers; 8.1 Freedericks transitions in nematic elastomers; 8.2 Strain-induced microstructure: stripe domains; 8.3 General distortions of nematic elastomers; 8.3.1 One-dimensional quasi-convexification; 8.3.2 Full quasi-convexification; 8.3.3 Numerical and experimental studies; 8.4 Random disorder in nematic networks

8.4.1 Nematic ordering with quenched disorder

Sommario/riassunto

This text is a primer for liquid crystals, polymers, rubber and elasticity. It is directed at physicists, chemists, material scientists, engineers and applied mathematicians at the graduate student level and beyond.