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Testing of a constitutive equation for entangled networks by elongational and shear data of polymer melts

G. MarrucciGiulio Cesare SartiGiuseppe Titomanlio

subject

chemistry.chemical_classificationMaterials scienceShear viscosityConstitutive equationQuantum PhysicsMechanicsPolymerCondensed Matter PhysicsStress levelCondensed Matter::Soft Condensed MatterShear (geology)chemistrySimultaneous equationsPolymer chemistryGeneral Materials SciencePolymer melt

description

An entangled network such as a polymer melt or a concentrated solution is here described by a set of two simultaneous equations. One of them is a balance of entanglements, the other gives the stress in the classical form of aMaxwell equation.

https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01635115