Polymer Melt Fracture

The continually growing plastics market consists of more than 250 million tons of product annually, making the recurring problem of polymer melt fracture an acute issue in the extrusion of these materials. Presenting a pictorial library of the different forms of melt fracture and real industrial extrusion melt fracture phenomena, this volume provides pragmatic identification and industrial extrusion defect remediation strategies based on detailed experimental and theoretical findings from the last 50 years. It explains mechanism and theory for the different melt fracture phenomena, explores simulation and prediction of melt fracture, and provides a comprehensive literature review with more than 700 references.