This article gives a review of the entanglement dynamics of flexible polymer chains from
theoretical and experimental points of view. The global motion of the entangled chains …

The damping function has been a concept introduced in rheology since more than 30 years
ago, and although a similar concept was already earlier implemented in studying rubber …

Polymer melts with long-chain side branches and more than one junction point, such as
commercial low density polyethylene (LDPE), have extensional rheology characterized by …

This book provides a systematic and self-consistent introduction to the nonlinear continuum
mechanics of solids, from the main axioms to comprehensive aspects of the theory. The …

Describes a consistent set of relations between the structure of polymers and their
commercially important thermal and mechanical properties for engineering applications …

This monograph presents theoretical and experimental studies of flows of elastic liquids.
Falling into this category are particularly the melts and concentrated solutions of such …

Well-defined, monodisperse homopolymer comb architectures with varied number and
length of the branches under linear and nonlinear deformation were synthesized and …

The relaxation processes of a wide variety of soft materials frequently contain one or more
broad regions of power-law like or stretched exponential relaxation in time and frequency …

The start-up and steady uniaxial elongational viscosity have been measured for two
monodisperse polystyrene melts with molecular weights of 52 and 103 kg∕ mole, and for …

The study of commercial low-density polyethylenes (LDPEs) has always focused on the
effects of the molecular architecture of the polymer on its shear and extensional rheological …