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The term “rheology” dates back to 1929 (Tanner and Walters 1998) and is used to describe the mechanical response of materials. Polymeric materials generally show a more complex response than classical Newtonian fluids or linear viscoelastic bodies. Nevertheless, the kinematics and the conservation laws are the same for all bodies. The presentation here is condensed; one may consult other books for amplification (Bird et al. 1987a; Huilgol and Phan-Thien 1997; Tanner 2000). We begin with kinematics.
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Zheng, R., Tanner, R.I., Fan, XJ. (2011). Fundamentals of Rheology. In: Injection Molding. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21263-5_2
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