Steady shear viscosity of short fibre suspensions in thermoplastics

Rheologica Acta

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 289-298

  Souloumiac, Bruno ^a   Vincent, Michel ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER; POLYMER; SHEAR FLOW; VISCOSITY;

COMPOSITES; FIBER REINFORCED; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0031797587     PISSN: 00354511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003970050116     Document Type: Article

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