Complex fluids, such as polymer melts and concentrated suspensions, are foundational materials for industrial products, ...

Manufacturing complex fluids industrially often involves mechanical forces that introduce internal stress and damage ...

This is because the plastic is constantly expanding or stretching in those processes. Two polymers may have identical shear flow behavior, but they could exhibit different extensional flow behavior ...

Rheology is the science of studying the flow and deformation of materials rooted in the laws of elasticity and viscosity proposed by Hooke and Newton in the late 17 th Century. Thermoplastic polymer ...