TY  - BOOK
AU  - Müller,Ingo
AU  - Strehlow,Peter
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Rubber and Rubber Balloons: Paradigms of Thermodynamics 
T2  - Lecture Notes in Physics,
SN  - 9783540452232
AV  - QC6.4.C6 
U1  - 531 23
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
KW  - Physics
KW  - Thermodynamics
KW  - Soft condensed matter
KW  - Materials
KW  - Mechanics, Fluids, Thermodynamics
KW  - Soft Matter, Complex Fluids
KW  - Physics and Applied Physics in Engineering
KW  - Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b93853
ER  -