The origin of stress-oscillation damping during startup and reversal of torsional shearing of nematics Patrick T. MatherDale S. PearsonAlexander M. Jamieson Original Contribution Pages: 485 - 497
Smectic rheology Ralph H. ColbyChristopher K. OberMichele Laus Original Contribution Pages: 498 - 504
Effect of molecular architecture on the electrorheological behavior of liquid crystal polymers in nematic solvents Yen-Ching ChiangAlex M. JamiesonVirgil Percec Original Contribution Pages: 505 - 512
Stress relaxation as a microstructural probe for immiscible polymer blends Inge VinckierJan MewisPaula Moldenaers Original Contribution Pages: 513 - 523
Nonlinear rheology of a concentrated spherical silica suspension: Hiroshi WatanabeMing-Long YaoYotaro Morishima Original Contribution Pages: 524 - 533
Sticky dumbbells: from Hookean dumbbells to transient network Jean-François Palierne Original Contribution Pages: 534 - 543
A constant-contour-length reptation model without independent alignment or consistent averaging approximations for chain retraction Chi C. HuaJay D. SchieberNaveen C. Andrews Original Contribution Pages: 544 - 554
Extensional rheology of concentrated poly(ethylene oxide) solutions Vishal GauriKurt W. Koelling Original Contribution Pages: 555 - 567
Rheological characterization of polyethylene terephthalate resins using a multimode Phan-Tien-Tanner constitutive relation Savvas G. HatzikiriakosGlenn HeffnerKostas Christodoulou Original Contribution Pages: 568 - 578
“Fracture” phenomena in shearing flow of viscous liquids Lynden A. ArcherDennis TernetRonald G. Larson Short Communication Pages: 579 - 584
The “decaying springs” model for irreversibility in polymer melts Hans BuggischThomas König Short Communication Pages: 585 - 589