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 …

Transient and steady‐state recoverable strains in shear and uniaxial elongation were
measured with rheometers of different type. Results on melts of linear and branched …

The enormous size of polymer molecules causes their molecular motions to span a broad
range of length scales and give rise to viscoelastic behaviour. This rate-dependence of the …

A stiffened and automated Weissenberg rheogoniometer has been used to measure time‐
dependent nonlinear properties of several polymer solutions in simple shear flow …

The molecular stress function (MSF) model is an integral constitutive equation introduced
more than two decades ago. It is based on the time-deformation separability principle. The …

The limits of linear viscoelastic behavior of polystyrene solutions have been investigated by
subjecting them to large‐amplitude oscillatory strains, γ0. At strains less than one we find …

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 …

Studying the mechanical response of nearly monodisperse linear and comb polystyrene
(PS) melts to medium amplitude oscillatory shear (MAOS), Hyun and Wilhelm …

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 …

Abstract The Hierarchical Multi-mode Molecular Stress Function (HMMSF) model predicts
the elongational and multiaxial extensional viscosities of polydisperse linear polymer melts …