Polymer Rheology

Fundamentals:

• What is Rheology ??
• Deformation and its types: Elastic & Flow
• Why study Rheology ??
• Stress and Strain and their types
• Ideally Elastic Solid
• Young’s Modulus and Shear Modulus
• Poisson’s Ratio
Newtonian Fluid
• Definition
• Expression
• Viscosity
• Fluidity
• Graphical representation of a Newtonian Fluid, Strain vs time and rate
of shear vs shear stress
Non-Newtonian Fluid
• Time Dependent and Time Independent fluids
• Time Independent types of fluids
• Time Dependent types of fluids
• Apparent viscosity
• Application of apparent viscosities
• Power Law
Rheological Effects
• Weissenberg Effect
• Melt Fracture and Irregular Flow
Visco-Elacticity
• Viscocelastic behavior
• Mechanical Model for Viscoelastic Material
• Expression for Maxwell Model
• Stress Relaxation
• Expression for stress relaxation
• Relaxation or Strain Enhancement under Constant Stress
• Creep
• Hysteresis