Rheophysics: The Deformation and Flow of Matter

Preface Foreword Acknowledgements 1. General points on materials and their rheophysical behaviour 2. Overview of the mechanics of continuous media 3. Hydrodynamics of simple liquids 4. Solid elasticity 5. Defects, plasticity and fracture solids 6. Rheology of isotropic viscoelastic materials (1) 7. Rheology of isotropic viscoelastic materials (2) 8. The rheology of liquid crystals References Notations Index.