Polymer and Composite Rheology

Gupta, Rakesh K.

• Introduction to polymer rheology; instruments for shear rheology; shear viscosity of melts of flexible chain polymers; shear viscosity of polymer solutions; normal stress differences in polymers during shear flow; dynamic mechanical properties; extensional viscosity; rigid-rod and liquid-crystal polymer rheology; yield stress, wall slip, particle migration, and other observations with multiphase systems; solid-in-liquid suspensions; short-fibre suspensions; emulsions; gas-containing melts and foams; rheology of powders and granular materials; chemorheology and gelation; flow through porous media; melt fracture.