vbid/9783031565175

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The book provides a detailed quantitative study and characterization of the physics of the thermal and viscoelastic behavior of mainly amorphous materials, and addresses a readership of both undergraduate (Part I and the two first chapters of Part II) and graduate students and junior researchers (Parts II and III).� Though the discussion and examples concentrate on polymer materials, Part II illustrates the potential universality of the proposed most recent treatment � a Cooperative Theory of Materials Dynamics (CTMD) � and its ability to portray the 11 major physical characteristics of the materials’ behavior by an alternative view of the thermal equilibrium and non-equilibrium dynamics at the “micro-scale”, the still challenging problem of the glass transition and glass transition temperature, how partial�crosslinking or crystallization limits the response, the expected impact of molecular packing, and of a few other open challenges. Part III discusses three specific domains where new applications and extensions of CTMD might be explored, while three Appendixes collect a few quantitative details and extensions of the treatment.Typham this is the title: Analytical Molecular Dynamics of Amorphous Condensed Matter Thermal and Non-equilibrium Response Behavior