Niall Murphy – författare

All aspects of our lives, industry, health, travel and leisure, are utterly reliant on rubber materials, yet typically this notion rarely occurs to us. Increasingly, greater demands are made on elastomeric compounds and we seek elevated performance in terms of improved physical and chemical properties. In particular, we have come to expect rubber components (tyres, vibration isolators, seals etc) to exhibit exceptional wear and fatigue resistance, often at elevated temperatures. Unsurprisingly then, the emphasis in characterising isochoric materials has shifted significantly away from understanding and modelling hyperelastic material behaviour, to a position where we can confi dently design and manufacture rubber components having the functionality and resilience to meet the dynamic loading and harsh environmental conditions that are prevalent today.In consequence, state-of-the-art technology in terms of dynamic response and fatigue resistance are strongly represented here along with numerous insights into advanced elastomers used in novel applications.This development is not at the expense of research devoted to current test procedures and the constitutive equations and algorithms that underpin finite element methods. As a result, Constitutive Models for Rubber VII is not only essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and researchers working in the discipline, but also for all those designers and engineers involved in the improvement of machines and devices by introducing new and novel elastomers possessing elevated properties.

All aspects of our lives, industry, health, travel and leisure, are utterly reliant on rubber materials, yet typically this notion rarely occurs to us. Increasingly, greater demands are made on elastomeric compounds and we seek elevated performance in terms of improved physical and chemical properties. In particular, we have come to expect rubber components (tyres, vibration isolators, seals etc) to exhibit exceptional wear and fatigue resistance, often at elevated temperatures. Unsurprisingly then, the emphasis in characterising isochoric materials has shifted significantly away from understanding and modelling hyperelastic material behaviour, to a position where we can confi dently design and manufacture rubber components having the functionality and resilience to meet the dynamic loading and harsh environmental conditions that are prevalent today.In consequence, state-of-the-art technology in terms of dynamic response and fatigue resistance are strongly represented here along with numerous insights into advanced elastomers used in novel applications.This development is not at the expense of research devoted to current test procedures and the constitutive equations and algorithms that underpin finite element methods. As a result, Constitutive Models for Rubber VII is not only essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and researchers working in the discipline, but also for all those designers and engineers involved in the improvement of machines and devices by introducing new and novel elastomers possessing elevated properties.

THE SENDING, receiving and collecting of postcards was an essential part oflife in Edwardian Dublin. In an age of few private telephones, the postcard was a popular and reliable form of communication - in Dublin there were six mail deliveries a dayand one on Sunday. To celebrate the centenary of Bloomsday, Niall Murphy has assembled a dazzling selection of 250 postcards, all of them posted in the Dublin area during 1904, four of them sent on 16 June. Here are the messages of ordinary people who walked the streets of Dublin side-by-side with the characters of Ulysses, their words eerily mirroring the novel's events. There is a rescue from drowning in Kingstown, crime and punishment in Grafton Street, the Great Storm of 1903, King Edward's visit, and memories of a 'departed day' spent in Howth. Among the tales of courtship, three are enacted in varying degrees of intimacy - Millicent and Francisque de Boissieu, Jack Miller and Maud Tighe, Ina and John MacGregor - echoing Joyce's use of postcards to establish the blossoming romance between Bloom's daughter Milly and Alec Bannon. Published in association with the National Library of Ireland, A Bloomsday Postcard features the work of legendary postcard artists: Louis Wain's strange human cats, Lance Thackery's satires of upper-class life, and C. Dana Gibson's exquisite drawings of beautiful women. Here also are cards that depict the Russo-Japanese War, Yukon gold-miners, the Dublin Horse Show and turf-cutters in Connemara, creating a mesmerizing colour mosaic that brings to life Joyce's Bloomsday as never before.