Mechanical Properties of Polymers

• Damping
  
  
• Maxwell elements and Kelvin elements
  
  
• Mooney-Rivlin Equation
  
  
• Nine Variables
  
  
• The Premise of Linear Viscosity
  
  
• Relaxation Times
  
  
• Rubber Elasticity, Equation of State for
  
  
• Tangent of the Phase Angle
  
  
• Time-Temperature Superposition, a worked example
  
  
• Viscoelasticity
  
  
  • Mathematically modelling of viscoelasticity, using dashpots and springs.
  • Five regions of viscoelastic behavior [Sperling-310]
  
  
• Trouton's Ratio
  
  
• Elongation