@inproceedings{e7a27beb7c3e4d21a9cbef4b9d223a8c,
title = "The influence of glass fibers on elongational viscosity studied by means of optical coherence tomography and X-ray computed tomography",
abstract = "We report on the flow characteristics of glass-fiber-reinforced polymers in elongational rheometry. Unlike polymers with geometrically isotropic fillers, glass-fiber-reinforced polymers exhibit flow behavior and rheology that depend heavily on the orientation, the length distribution and the content of the fibers. One of the primary objectives of this study was to determine the effect of fiber orientation, concentration and distribution on the entrance pressure drop by means of optical coherence tomography (OCT), full-field optical coherence microscopy (FF-OCM), and X-ray computed tomography (X-CT). Both pressure drop and melt flow were analyzed using a special elongation die (Thermo Scientific X-Die [3]) for inline measurements. Samples with a variety of fiber volume fractions, fiber lengths and processing temperatures were measured.",
author = "Michael Aigner and Dietmar Salaberger and Andreas Buchsbaum and Bettina Heise and Stefan Schausberger and Thomas K{\"o}pplmayr and Christian Lang and Michael Leitner and David Stifter and Ivana Burzic and J{\"u}rgen Miethlinger",
year = "2013",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1063/1.4873767",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-0-7354-1227-9",
volume = "1593",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "AIP Publishing",
pages = "217--221",
editor = "{American Institute of Physics}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Polymer Processing Society 29th Annual Meeting",
}