Rubber and Rubber Balloons Paradigms of Thermodynamics / [electronic resource] :
edited by Ingo Müller, Peter Strehlow.
- Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004.
- VII, 123 p. online resource.
- Lecture Notes in Physics, 637 0075-8450 ; .
- Lecture Notes in Physics, 637 .
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.
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.
9783540452232
10.1007/b93853 doi
Physics.
Thermodynamics.
Soft condensed matter.
Materials.
Physics.
Mechanics, Fluids, Thermodynamics.
Soft Matter, Complex Fluids.
Physics and Applied Physics in Engineering.
Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.
QC6.4.C6
531
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.
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.
9783540452232
10.1007/b93853 doi
Physics.
Thermodynamics.
Soft condensed matter.
Materials.
Physics.
Mechanics, Fluids, Thermodynamics.
Soft Matter, Complex Fluids.
Physics and Applied Physics in Engineering.
Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.
QC6.4.C6
531