Rheological Investigation of Wood-Polypropylene Composites in Rotational Plate Rheometer

Journal of Polymers and the Environment

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 998-1006

  Soury, Ehsan ^a   Behravesh, Amir Hossein ^a   Rizvi, Ghaus M ^b   Jam, Nathan Jafarian ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Polypropylene; Rheology; Thermoplastics; Wood plastic composite

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS; COMPLEX VISCOSITY; FREQUENCY SWEEP; GAP DISTANCES; GREEN COMPOSITES; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; LOSS MODULI; MELT FLOW; MELT TEMPERATURE; PROCESSING CONDITION; RHEOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; STEADY SHEAR; SWEEP TESTS; WOOD CONTENT; WOOD PLASTIC COMPOSITE; WOOD-PLASTIC COMPOSITES;

ELASTIC MODULI; POLYPROPYLENES; RHEOLOGY; RHEOMETERS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; THERMOPLASTICS; VISCOSITY; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EXPERIMENTS;

PLASTIC; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS; STRAIN; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY; WOOD;

DEFORMATION; ELASTIC STRENGTH; EXPERIMENTATION; POLYMER WOOD COMBINATIONS; POLYPROPYLENE; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS; THERMOPLASTICS; VISCOSITY; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EID: 84871328845     PISSN: 15662543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10924-012-0502-x     Document Type: Article

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