Concentrated Solutions & Melts

• Much less pronounced strain-hardening in transient Trouton ratio

• Numerical simulation plays a key role in validating data analysis

• Recent experiments show that at DeR � 1 (based on Rouse time) significant effects of segmental stretch can be observed

  • Paper #600, Bhattacharjee & Sridhar

Transient Trouton Ratio

Li & Burghardt, JNNFM 1998

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