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Record Nr.

UNINA9910257386703321

Autore

Müller Ingo

Titolo

Rubber and Rubber Balloons [[electronic resource] ] : Paradigms of Thermodynamics / / by Ingo Müller, Peter Strehlow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2004

ISBN

3-540-45223-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2004.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VII, 123 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 637

Disciplina

531/.382

Soggetti

Field theory (Physics)

Amorphous substances

Complex fluids

Engineering

Mechanics

Mechanics, Applied

Classical and Continuum Physics

Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics

Engineering, general

Solid Mechanics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Stability of Two Rubber Balloons -- Kinetic Theory of Rubber -- Non-linear Elasticity -- Biaxial Stretching of a Rubber Membrane -- Stability of a Single Balloon. Stabilization -- Stepwise Inflation of a Balloon -- Inflation and Deflation of Two Balloons. Hysteresis -- Many Balloons. Emergence of a Pseudoelastic Hysteresis -- Crystallization of Rubber -- Historical Notes.

Sommario/riassunto

Experiments with rubber balloons and rubber sheets have led to surprising observations, some of them hitherto unknown or not previously described in the literature. In balloons, these phenomena are due to the non-monotonic pressure-radius characteristic which makes balloons a subject of interest to physicists engaged in stability studies. Here is a situation in which symmetry breaking and hysteresis may be studied analytically, because the stress-stretch relations of rubber -



and its non-convex free energy - can be determined explicitly from the kinetic theory of rubber and from non-linear elasticity. Since rubber elasticity and the elasticity of gases are both entropy-induced, a rubber balloon represents a compromise between the entropic tendency of a gas to expand and the entropic tendency of rubber to contract. Thus rubber and rubber balloons furnish instructive paradigms of thermodynamics. This monograph treats the subject at a level appropriate for post-graduate studies.