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THOR L. SMITH
Pages 306-309

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... . In 1954 he moved to California, where he joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and did extensive research on solid rocket propellants, elastomers, rheology, and visco­lasticity.
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... His early work focused on rubbery polymers and key issues related to their use in solid propellants for rocket motors. This led to the clever elucidation of the now famous "failure envelope" of rubbery materials and involved recognizing the applicability to failure behavior of time-­emperature super­ t position principles from linear visco­ lasticity.
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... Stafford Whitby Memorial Lectures at the University of Akron in 1974. He served on the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of Polymer Science: Polymer Physics Edition and Polymer Engineering and Sciences.
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