LEADER 04790nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910812383103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-383-02455-3 010 $a1-281-34603-9 010 $a0-19-152363-1 024 7 $a10.1093/oso/9780198527671.001.0001 035 $a(CKB)1000000000551716 035 $a(EBL)422844 035 $a(OCoLC)476259980 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000192873 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11197905 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000192873 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10217514 035 $a(PQKB)10708702 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL422844 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10271647 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL134603 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC422844 035 $a(OCoLC)1406786799 035 $a(StDuBDS)9781383024555 035 $a(OCoLC)73954018 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB164803 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000551716 100 $a20070518d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLiquid crystal elastomers /$fM. Warner and E.M. Terentjev 205 $aRev. ed. 210 $aOxford $cClarendon Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (422 p.) 225 1 $ainternational series of monographs on physics ;$v120 300 $aPrevious ed.: 2003. 311 $a0-19-921486-7 311 $a0-19-852767-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 382-392) and indexes. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a3.3 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 327 $a7 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 327 $a7.4.4 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 327 $a8.4.1 Nematic ordering with quenched disorder 330 8 $aThis text is a primer for liquid crystals, polymers, rubber and elasticity. It is directed at physicists, chemists, material scientists, engineers and applied mathematicians at the graduate student level and beyond. 410 0$aInternational series of monographs on physics (Oxford, England) ;$v120. 606 $aLiquid crystals 606 $aPolymer networks 606 $aElastomers 615 0$aLiquid crystals. 615 0$aPolymer networks. 615 0$aElastomers. 676 $a530.4/29 676 $a530.429 676 $a530.429 700 $aWarner$b M$0168636 701 $aTerentjev$b E. M$g(Eugene Michael)$01756768 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812383103321 996 $aLiquid crystal elastomers$94194261 997 $aUNINA