Description
Book SynopsisPolymer Processing Instabilities: Control and Understanding offers a practical understanding of the various flows that occur during the processing of polymer melts. The book pays particular attention to flow instabilities that affect the rate of production and the methods used to prevent and eliminate flow instabilities in order to increase production rates and enhance manufacturing efficiency.
Polymer Processing Instabilities: Control and Understanding summarizes experimental observations of flow instabilities that occur in numerous processing operations such as extrusion, injection molding, fiber spinning, film casting, and film blowing for a wide range of materials, including most commodity polymers that are processed as melts at temperatures above their melting point or as concentrated solutions at lower temperatures. The book first presents the fundamental principles in rheology and flow instabilities. It relates the operating conditions with flow curves, the critical
Trade Review"This is a valuable resource and should be of interest to research students, scientists and practitioners studying polymer processes. It is a must for students of polymer rheology."
-Dr. S.D. Rostami C.Eng. MIMMM, Materials World, Vol. 14, No. 9, September 2006
"[A] worthwhile contribution to the literature on instabilities in polymer processing. The book is most useful to those involved in in-depth analysis of instabilities, such as academics, researchers, and process engineers interested in fundamental approaches to understanding instabilities."
- Polymer News, June 2005
Table of ContentsIntroduction, Viscoelasticity and Basic Flows, Melt Fracture and Related Phenomena, Applications
