| Zugriffsnummer | 10593 |
| Dokumenttyp | Buch |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Titel | Rubber and rubber balloons : paradigms of thermodynamics |
| Autor(in); Institution |
Müller, Ingo; Technische Universität Berlin, Thermodynamik, GERMANY
Strehlow, Peter; 7.301, Tieftemperatur-Thermodynamik, PTB-Berlin
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| Quelle/Jahr | (2004), 123 S. |
| Schriftenreihe | Lecture notes in physics: 637 |
| ISSN | 0075-8450 |
| ISBN | 3-540-20244-7 |
| Verlag | Berlin [u.a.]: Springer |
| Zusammenfassung | 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 th non-monotinic 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 explicity 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. |
