Local versus integral measurements of the extensional viscosity of polymer melts

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1363-1377

  Burghelea, Teodor I ^a   Star, Zdeněk ^a   Münstedt, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elongational flow; Local measurements; Polymer melts

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM PLATE; DEFORMATION STATE; ELONGATIONAL FLOW; EXTENSIONAL PROPERTIES; EXTENSIONAL VISCOSITY; HOMOGENEOUS SAMPLES; INHOMOGENEITIES; INITIAL STATE; LOCAL MEASUREMENT; LOCAL MEASUREMENTS; LOCAL STRESS; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; REALTIME IMAGING; SAMPLE DIAMETER; SIMPLE METHOD; SYNCHRONOUS MEASUREMENTS; VISCOSITY DATA;

DEFORMATION; MEASUREMENTS; RHEOMETERS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; STRAIN RATE; VISCOSITY;

POLYMER MELTS;

EID: 76849112916     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.3237024     Document Type: Article

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