Orienting Polymers : Proceedings of a Workshop held at the IMA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis March 21-26, 1983 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1063) (1984)

Orientation development in liquid crystal polymers.- A thermodynamic view of order parameters for liquid crystals.- Orientation and motion at a polymer-polymer interface: Interdiffusion of fluorescent-labelled macromolecules.- The necking of semicrystalline polymers in tension.- Discontinuous response in viscoelastic bars.- A phenomenological theory of the mechanics of cold drawing.- Theory for the cold-drawing of polymers.- A mathematical afterthought.- Erratum.