Rheology for Chemists

ISBN: 9780854046164

出版社: Springer Verlag

出版年: 2000-8

页数: 300

定价: $ 95.99

装帧: Pap

内容简介

Rheology is in an integral part of life from decorative paint and the movement of volcanic lava, to the flow of blood in our veins. This book describes, without using complex mathematics, how atoms and molecules interact to control the handling properties of materials ranging from simple ionic crystals through polymers to colloidal dispersals. Beginning with an introduction to essential terminology, this text goes on to discuss limiting behaviour, temporal behaviour and non-linear behaviour. Throughout, examples of everyday experiments are provided to illustrate the theory, which increases in complexity with each chapter. Ideas are developed in a systematic fashion so that the mechanisms responsible for the elastic, viscous, or viscoelastic behaviour of systems are understood.