“…The hypothesis of Scott [S5] that highly filled elastomers exhibited yield values was confirmed by Bartenev and his co-workers [Zl] as well as by Vinogradov et al [V3, V4] (both in Moscow) and later by others [M33,M37,O10,Sll,T7,W28]. Yield values also found to occur by subsequent researchers for thermoplastics filled with a wide variety of particles including talc (C8), titanium dioxide [M2,M29,Tl] calcium carbonate [M2,S25,Tl], as well as carbon black [L14, M3,Tl].…”