00915nam0-2200313---450-99000865776040332120080512151454.088-435-3985-X000865776FED01000865776(Aleph)000865776FED0100086577620080512d1992----km-y0itay50------baitaengITa-------001yyArchitetture sovrapposteprogettia cura di Anna ContiMilanoElectac1992113 p.ill.24 cmCatalogo della Mostra tenuta a Prato nel 1992Edifici industrialiRiuso architettonicoPratoEsposizioni1992Conti,AnnaITUNINARICAUNIMARCBK990008657760403321ARCH B 12504310FARBCFARBCArchitetture sovrapposte715783UNINA04820nam 2200793 n 450 991096191750332120251116232123.01-383-02455-31-281-34603-90-19-152363-110.1093/oso/9780198527671.001.0001(CKB)1000000000551716(EBL)422844(OCoLC)476259980(SSID)ssj0000192873(PQKBManifestationID)11197905(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000192873(PQKBWorkID)10217514(PQKB)10708702(Au-PeEL)EBL422844(CaPaEBR)ebr10271647(CaONFJC)MIL134603(MiAaPQ)EBC422844(OCoLC)1406786799(StDuBDS)9781383024555(OCoLC)73954018(FINmELB)ELB164803(EXLCZ)99100000000055171620030721e20232003 |y |engur|n|---|||||txtccrLiquid crystal elastomers /M. Warner and E. M. TerentjevRev. ed.Oxford :Oxford University Press,2023.1 online resource (422 p.)International series of monographs on physics ;120.Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2003.0-19-921486-7 0-19-852767-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 polymers3.3 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 stress7 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 strips7.4.4 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 networks8.4.1 Nematic ordering with quenched disorderThis 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.International series of monographs on physics ;120.Oxford scholarship online.Liquid crystalsElastomersLiquid crystals.Elastomers.530.4/29530.429530.429Warner M.168636Terentjev E. M(Eugene Michael),StDuBDSUkStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK9910961917503321Liquid crystal elastomers4526450UNINA