A comparison of extensional viscosity measurements from various RME rheometers

Rheologica Acta

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 457-466

  Schulze, Jonathan S ^a   Lodge, Timothy P ^a   Macosko, Christopher W ^a   Hepperle, Jens ^b   Münstedt, Helmut ^b   Bastian, Heike ^c   Ferri, Dino ^d   Groves, David J ^e   Kim, Yong Hoon ^f   Lyon, Mike ^g   Schweizer, Thomas ^h   Virkler, Terry ⁱ   Wassner, Erik ^j   Zoetelief, Wim ^k  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d ENI S P A   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^f TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^g EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^h ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ BAYER CORPORATION   (United States)

^j BASF SE   (Germany)

^k DSM RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

Instrumentation; Polymer melt; RME; Uniaxial extensional rheometry

Indexed keywords

FLOW MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METERING; POLYMER; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0034800765     PISSN: 00354511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003970100170     Document Type: Article

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