Probing the nonequilibrium dynamics of stress, orientation, and entanglements in polymer melts with orthogonal interrupted shear simulations
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DOI: 10.1122/8.0000407
Abstract: Both entangled and unentangled polymer melts exhibit stress overshoots when subject to shearing flow. The size of the overshoot depends on the applied shear rate and is related to relaxation mechanisms such as reptation, chain… read more here.
Keywords: chain; interrupted shear; orientation; relaxation ... See more keywords