Gross melt fracture in extrusion

Polymer Processing Instabilities: Control and Understanding

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 207-236

  Dealy, John M ^a   Kim, Seungoh ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

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