Carl J. Christensen

Forced Vibrations of Polyamide Monofils

a repeated mechanical deformation. Thus, a correlation of dynamic rheological behavior with internal molecular structure provides not only basic concepts for the scientist, but also practical information for the engineer and industrialist. The application of a sinusoidally varying stress to many natural and synthetic high polymers results in a net cyclical expenditure of energy by the driving mechanism. Thus, the magnitude of the net energy absorbed by a test sample during a cycle is a measure of the degree of its departure from ideal Hookean behavior.