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Knowledge – Rheology

Knowledge - Rheology

On this page we offer information on rheological topics in the field of polymers and elastomers.

Polymers

Rg

Knowledge – Rheology – Corrections with the rheometer

Corrections to get true Shear Rate and Shear Stress.
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Moisture

Knowledge – Rheology – MFI – Moisture

Influence of Moisture content for PET in Melt Index Testing
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MFR / MVR
Principle of melt flow index measurement.

Melt Flow Rate

The melt index (melt flow rate) is an important measure of how easily the melt of a thermoplastic polymer flows through a capillary. It is used for quality control and as a simple estimate of the flow behaviour in production.
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IV
GÖTTFERT - IV Tester für die Bestimmung der Grenzviskosität, respektive der intrinsischen Viskosität.

Intrinsic viscosity

With the method described, the intrinsic viscosity (IV) is determined via correlation, without chemical solvents.
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Elastomers

LAOS

Knowledge – Rheology – Large amplitude oscillatory shear

Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear. Expanded ability to characterize polymers and polymer mixtures with FFT delivers high selectivity.
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Products

X-trude

GÖTTFERT – Laboratory extruder

Laboratory Extruders from GÖTTFERT- an open Platform for rheological Online Analysis.
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Rheograph

GÖTTFERT – Capillary rheometer

Capillary rheometers from GÖTTFERT meeting the highest customer expectations.
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Elastomer
The image shows three elastomer testing instruments from GÖTTFERT. The first one is the elastograph (MDR moving die rheometer), the second is a mooney viscosimeter (MV) and the third is a visco-elastograph (VE, or RPA rubber process analyser)

GÖTTFERT – Elastomer testing devices

High quality elastomer testing instruments from GÖTTFERT including mooney viscosimeters, MDR moving die rheometers, RPA rubber process analysers and RCR rubber capillary rheometers.
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