Extrusion of Polymers: Theory & Practice
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- Physical Description of Single-Screw Extrusion
- Fundamentals of Polymers and Melt Rheology
- Theories of Single-Screw Extrusion and Scale-Up
- Screw Design and High Performance Screws
- Gear Pumps, Static Mixers, and Dynamic Mixers
- Die Design
- Viscoelastic Effects in Melt Flow
- Special Single-Screw Extruder with Channeled Barrel
- Physical Description of Twin-Screw Extruders
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