Torque viscometry of molten polymers and composites

Applied Rheology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Santi, Cristiano R ^a   Hage Jr , Elias ^a   Correa, Carlos A ^b   Vlachopoulos, John ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE SÃO FRANCISCO   (Brazil)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cox Merz rule; Viscosity; Viscous dissipation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651149680     PISSN: 14306395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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