2005 Annual Meeting

Session: Polymer Processing and Rheology I

Chair

Kurt W. Koelling, The Ohio State University

Co-Chair

U. Sundararaj, University of Alberta

Presentations

08:00 AM

(583a) In Situ Measurements of Molecular Orientation in Commercial Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polymers in Transient Shear Flows
Stanley Rendon, Wesley Burghardt, Robert Bubeck

08:18 AM

(583b) Rheology of Carbon Nanofiber/Polystyrene and Nanoclay/Polystyrene Melt Composites
Jianhua Xu, Christopher Kagarise, Yingru Wang, Kurt W. Koelling, Stephen E. Bechtel

08:36 AM

(583c) Transient Rheology of a Polypropylene Melt Reinforced with Long and Short Glass Fibers
Donald G. Baird

08:54 AM

(583d) Rheology of Homopolymer and Blends of Dense Star Polystyrene Soft Nanospheres
Ajay C. Kulkarni

09:12 AM

(583e) Rotational Rheometry of Polymers under High Pressure Carbon Dioxide
Maxwell J. Wingert, L. James Lee, David L. Tomasko, Kurt W. Koelling

09:30 AM

(583f) Rheostructural Study of a Discotic Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Mesophase Pitch
Santanu Kundu, Amod A. Ogale

09:48 AM

(583g) The Performance of Multiple-Mode Models in Single and Double Step-Strain Flows
Bangwu Jiang, Prajakta A. Kamerkar, David J. Keffer, Brian J. Edwards

10:06 AM

(583h) Orientation Number in Elongational Flow of Polymer Melts and Solutions
John R. Collier, Xiaoling Wei, Simioan Petrovan, Nicholas E. Hudson