Synopses & Reviews
"an absorbing romp through the history of mankind's preoccupation with the 403 septillion ways that the letters of the alphabet can be combined." -Los Angeles Times
From the highbrow riddle to the lowly pun, The Oxford Guide to Word Games provides a comprehensive history of verbal wit and word play. Charades, hangman, anagrams, and tongue-twisters are among the many popular games described vividly in this new, updated edition of the lively guide to all kinds of
word games and word play. With sections added to incorporate new and evolving games, Tony Augarde offers a highly entertaining history of the games and how to play them.
Organized thematically, the book examines twenty-six forms of word game in absorbing detail, including Scrabble and Spoonerisms, crosswords and chronograms, riddles and puns. Neither the crossword addict nor the student of linguistics and lexicography will be able to resist.
Review
"Ray Pearson has provided an excellent overview titled 'toughening in polymers' with emphasis on methods for measuring toughness. The book offers a good balance in papers between theory/modelling and experimental results. For those directly involved with this field, this would be a good book to read. The book will be recommended for polymer science libraries." -- Lloyd M. Robeson, Polymer News
Synopsis
This book is an overview of the current state of developments in engineering toughened plastics. New theoretical approaches and practical applications as well as advances in epoxy polymers, rubber toughening, polymer blends, and micro and macro concepts are included.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction to the Toughening of Polymers, Raymond A Pearson
Modeling Studies
2. Recent Developments in the Modeling of Dilatational Yielding in Toughened Plastics, Andrea Lazzeri and Clive B. Bucknall
3. Mesoscopic Localized Deformations in Rubber-Toughened Blends, K.G.W. Pijnenburg and E. Van der Giessen
4. A Multi-Level Finite Element Method for Modeling Rubber-Toughened Amorphous Polymers, Han E. H. Meijer, Leon E. Govaert, and Robert J. M. Smit
5. Mechanics of Thoughening Brittle Polymers, M.D. Thouless, J. Du, and A.F. Yee
6. Three-Dimensional Elasto-Plastic Finite Element Modeling of Rigid-Rigid Polymer Toughening Processes, Yiu-Wing Mai and Xiao-hong Chen
Experimental Studies
7. Novel Mechanisms of Toughening Semi-Crystalline Polymers, A.S. Argon, et al.
8. Deformation of Polypropylene-EPDM Blends, Reinoud J. Gaymans and Allard van der Wal
9. The Role of Impact Modifier Particle Size and Adhesion on the Toughness of PET, Thomas J. Pecorini and David Calvert
10. Yield Envelopes of Micro-Voided Epoxies, Alan J. Lesser, Robert S. Kody, and Emmett D. Crawford
11. The Network Structure of Epoxy Systems and Its Relationship to Toughness and Toughenability, H.-J. Sue, et al.
12. Polymethacrylate Toughened Epoxies, Alexandre A Baidak, N. Tahir, and J.M. Liégeois
13. The Effect of Particle Size on Synergistic Toughening of Boron Nitride-Rubber Hybrid Epoxy Composites, Michael F. DiBerardino and Raymond A. Pearson
Indexes
Author Index
Subject Index