1. Dear authors, dear readers

   • H. Henning Winter

   Editor's Note Pages: 1 - 1

2. An alternative approach to the linear theory of viscoelasticity and some characteristic effects being distinctive of the type of material

   • Hanswalter Giesekus

   Original Contribution Pages: 2 - 11

3. Extensional flow —a mathematical perspective

   • Christopher J. S. Petrie

   Original Contribution Pages: 12 - 26

4. Non-linearity in rheology —an essay of classification

   • Alexander Ya. Malkin

   Original Contribution Pages: 27 - 39

5. Distortions of polymer melt extrudates and their elimination using slippery surfaces

   • Jean-Michel Piau
   • Nadia El Kissi
   • Abderrazak Mezghani

   Original Contribution Pages: 40 - 57

6. Molecular motions in macromolecules under mechanic and electric force fields

   • Ricardo Díaz-Calleja
   • Evaristo Riande
   • E. Riande

   Original Contribution Pages: 58 - 69

7. A melt rheometer with integrated small angle light scattering

   • Jörg Läuger
   • Wolfram Gronski

   Original Contribution Pages: 70 - 79

8. Optical studies (LDA) of an electrorheological fluid in slit flow

   • Ulrich Schindler
   • Jürgen Vorwerk
   • Peter O. Brunn

   Original Contribution Pages: 80 - 85

9. Rheological studies of the gelation of aqueous solutions of acrylamide-acrylic acid copolymers in the presence of chromium chloride

   • Khalid El Brahmi
   • Jeanne François
   • Dominique Dupuis

   Original Contribution Pages: 86 - 96

10. Prediction of residual flow and thermoviscoelastic stresses in injection molding

    • K. K. Kabanemi
    • Abdellatif Aït-Kadi
    • Philippe A. Tanguy

    Original Contribution Pages: 97 - 108

11. Strain-coupling effects in start-up experiments

    • James S. Vrentas
    • C. M. Vrentas

    Short Communication Pages: 109 - 114

12. On the significance of pressure relaxations in capillary or slit flow

    • John M. Dealy

    Short Communication Pages: 115 - 116

13. Congress announcements

    Announcement Pages: 117 - 117