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UNINA9910504291903321 |
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Autore |
Strobel P. A (Philip A.) |
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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 |
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2021., : University of Georgia Press |
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1 online resource (1 online resource xiii, 318 pages) : : illustrations |
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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 |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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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. |
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UNINA9910961917503321 |
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Autore |
Warner Mark <1952-2021, > |
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Liquid crystal elastomers / / M. Warner and E. M. Terentjev |
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Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
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1-383-02455-3 |
1-281-34603-9 |
0-19-152363-1 |
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[Rev. ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (422 p.) |
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Collana |
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International series of monographs on physics ; ; 120. |
Oxford scholarship online |
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Liquid crystals |
Elastomers |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2003. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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