Investigation of relaxation properties of polymer melts by comparison of relaxation time spectra calculated with different algorithms

Rheologica Acta

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 667-676

  Brabec, Christoph J ^a   Rögl, Harald ^a   Schausberger, Alois ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dynamic moduli; Iterative filtering method; Regularization; Relaxation phenomena; Relaxation time spectra

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000600799     PISSN: 00354511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00367363     Document Type: Article

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