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book on Helical Wormlike Chains and free online book

Andrew Norris — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:57:50 -0500

Helical Wormlike Chains in Polymer Solutions, by Yamakawa, Hiromi, Springer 1997

This book is technical but very informative. It goes into the details of the WLC model more than any other book that I know of.

Most libraries don't have t hat book - but a good alternative is the older 1971 text "Modern Theory of Polymer Solutions" by Yamakawa which contains a good deal of the same material and is more introductory. And the 1971 book is available for FREE in pdf form here .

Thank you vey much for your

BirosTheo — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:21:49 -0500

Thank you vey much for your infos

In the Cowin and Doty's

Almir Uzunovic — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:19:02 -0500

In the Cowin and Doty's book "Tissue Mechanics" there is a section related to modelling of spiral structures and issues such as chirality and singularity. While problem is explained from the continuum mechanics' point of view (primarily related to modeling of materials such as wood and horn), the authors provide enough references for further study. The book has it's web site on http://tissue-mechanics.com/

I hope this helps.

Almir