Steady states in extensional flow of strain hardening polymer melts and the uncertainties of their determination

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1065-1077

  Münstedt, Helmut ^a   Starý, Zdeněk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elongation; Polymer melts; Sample uniformity; Steady state; Viscosity maximum

Indexed keywords

BRANCHED POLYPROPYLENE; CREEP EXPERIMENTS; CRITICAL ASSESSMENT; ELONGATIONAL VISCOSITY; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENE(LDPE); SAMPLE DEFORMATION; STEADY STATE;

CREEP; ELONGATION; EXPERIMENTS; POLYMER MELTS; STRAIN HARDENING;

VISCOSITY;

EID: 84879896402     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.4803932     Document Type: Article

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