Shear flow is ubiquitous. Not only is it arguably the most widely-used deformation type to
characterise complex fluids in rheological studies but also, in practice, the deformation most …

High-shear rate rotational rheometry provides access to the fast nonlinear dynamics of soft
materials and, particularly, their shear stress (exhibiting shear thinning and/or thickening) as …

In an earlier book, Rheological Measurement (AA Collyer & DW Clegg, Elsevier Applied
Science, 1988), the basic rheological methods of measurement presently used were …

A self-consistent reptation theory that accounts for chain-tube interactions, segment
connectivity, chain-length breathing, segmental stretch, and constraint release is proposed …

Here, the sum is conducted over all the particles in a given macromolecule. Assuming that
all the macromolecules are identical, and neglecting the statistical dependence of the …

Edge fracture is an instability of cone-plate and parallel plate flows of viscoelastic liquids
and suspensions, characterised by the formation of acrack'or indentation at a critical shear …

Many biological fluids have polymeric microstructures and display non-Newtonian rheology.
We take advantage of such nonlinear fluid behavior and combine it with geometrical …

Step shear rate experiments in the range of 0.1< ̇ γ< 30s^-1 (0.14< Wi< 42) were
performed with a PS 158K melt at 190° C. A cone (gap angle= 0.148 rad) and partitioned …

We propose a simple, robust method to measure both the first and second normal stress
differences of polymers, hence obtaining the full set of viscometric material functions in …

Measurements of the shear viscosity and the first and second normal stress coefficients are
shown at 175° C for a nearly monodisperse polystyrene melt with M w= 200 kg/mol (PS 200 …