Abstract
This paper describes a theory of large strain, rubber-like elasticity combined with stress relaxation, which is the character of the behavior of hot plastics indicated by a series of unpublished high extension rate tests on such materials as polystyrene, polyethylene, acetate, etc., in the molten or “soft” state.
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