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- Authors:
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John A. Manson
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Lehigh University, USA
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Leslie H. Sperling
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Lehigh University, USA
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xvii
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- John A. Manson, Leslie H. Sperling
Pages 1-49
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- John A. Manson, Leslie H. Sperling
Pages 51-75
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- John A. Manson, Leslie H. Sperling
Pages 77-119
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- John A. Manson, Leslie H. Sperling
Pages 121-151
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- John A. Manson, Leslie H. Sperling
Pages 153-168
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- John A. Manson, Leslie H. Sperling
Pages 169-209
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- John A. Manson, Leslie H. Sperling
Pages 211-236
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- John A. Manson, Leslie H. Sperling
Pages 237-270
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- John A. Manson, Leslie H. Sperling
Pages 271-297
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- John A. Manson, Leslie H. Sperling
Pages 299-333
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- John A. Manson, Leslie H. Sperling
Pages 335-371
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- John A. Manson, Leslie H. Sperling
Pages 373-457
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- John A. Manson, Leslie H. Sperling
Pages 459-479
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Back Matter
Pages 481-513
About this book
The need for writing a monograph on polymer blends and composites became apparent during presentation of material on this subject to our advanced polymers class. Although the flood of important research in this area in the past decade has resulted in many symposia, edited collections of papers, reviews, contributions to scientific journals, and patents, apparently no organized presentation in book form has been forthcoming. In a closely connected way, another strong impetus for writing this monograph arose out of our research programs in the Materials Research Center at Lehigh University. As part of this effort, we had naturally compiled hundreds of references and become acquainted with many leaders in the field of blend and composite research. Perhaps the most important concept stressed over and over again is that engineering materials are useful because of their complexity, not in spite of it. Blends and composites are toughened because many modes of resistance to failure are available. Although such multimechanism processes are diffi cult to describe with a unified theory. we have presented available develop ments in juxtaposition with the experimental portions. The arguments somewhat resemble the classical discussion of resonance in organic chemistry, where molecular structures increase in stability as more electronic configura tions become available.
