Tutorials

Tutorial 1: Introduction to Rheology Fundamentals

University of Massachusetts Amherst; Graduate Course; CHE 757, PSE 757

Professor H. Henning Winter

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Lecture 01 - Overview of Rheology Course; Rheological Phenomena

Lecture 02 - Rheological Phenomena, Die Flow

Lecture 03 - Definition of Stress and Strain Tensors

Lecture 04 - Examples of Stress and Strain Tensors

Lecture 05 - Stress and Strain Tensor Properties

Lecture 06 - Transient and Steady Shear Flow

Lecture 07 - Shear and Extensional Flow, Temperature Shift, Capillary Flow

Lecture 08 - Capillary and Rotational Shear Rheometers

Lecture 09 - Extensional Rheometry, Linear viscoelasticity

Lecture 10 - Boltzmann Equation, Time-Temperature Superposition, Cox-Merz, Booij-Palmen, Gleissle

Lecture 11 - Relaxation Time Spectrum, Parsimonious Spectrum

Lecture 12 - Creep and Recovery, Molecular Architecture and BSW Spectrum

Lecture 13 - Macromolecular Architecture Dynamics

Lecture 14 - Rheology of Gelation

Lecture 15 - The Critical Gel

Lecture 16 - Gelation of Large Polymers, Reverse Gelation

Lecture 17 - Near Critical Gels, Flow Induced Mixing of Polymer Blends

Lecture 18 - Shear and Extensional Induced Mixing and Demixing

Lecture 19 - Rheological Constitutive Equations

Lecture 20 - Rheological Constitutive Equations for Finite Strain

Lecture 21 - Rheology of Liquid Crystalline Polymers

Lecture 22 - Rheology of Block Copolymers