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Polymers and polymer based composites are becoming increasingly important structural materials. Their mechanical, as well as other physical properties, can significantly change with time and this can seriously influence their long term durability. These time-dependent changes in the materials’ mechanical properties is caused either by a chemical process, or is due simply to the viscoelastic nature of the polymer matrix. In this paper the emphasis will be on the latter phenomenon.
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Emri, I. (1997). Use of Polymers and Polymer-Based Composites in Structural Mechanics. In: Roorda, J., Srivastava, N.K. (eds) Trends in Structural Mechanics. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 54. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5476-5_9
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