A brief review of some approaches to hysteresis in viscoelastic polymers

✍ Scribed by H.T. Banks

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 399 KB
• Volume: 69
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0362-546X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2008.02.103

✦ Synopsis

We give a brief review of hysteresis in viscoelastic polymers. The efforts surveyed range from phenomenological to molecular modelling with applications involving recent efforts on elastomers to biotissue.