Dear Patrick,
There's an excellent book entitled "The Mechanical Properties of Matter" by
Alan Cottrell Wiley,1964) which should help you.
You may also care to look at "Strength & Fracture of Engineering Solids" by
Felbeck & Atkins (Prentice Hall) where even the obscure Deborah number is
explained in simple terms.
Best wishes, Tony Atkins
On Jan 31 2006, Patrick Drechsler wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am looking for a good introductory book on rheology.
>
>Subjects of interest are:
>
>viscoelasticity
>non-Hookean solids/non-Newtonian fluids
>commonly used dashpot-spring models
>alternatives to dashpot-spring models
>deborah number
>
>The more these concepts are described from a non-engineering
>point of view, the better.
>
>The only two books in biomechanics I am aware of are Julian
>Vincent's "Structural Biomaterials" and Steven Vogel's
>"Comparative Biomechanics". These are both excellent books but do
>not focus on the subjects mentioned above.
>
>Thankful for any pointers
>
>Patrick
>
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