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Twenty years of physics: Rheology

MAY 01, 1968
Robert S. Marvin

IN ITS PAST two decades rheology has been mainly concerned with development of models that represent the mechanical behavior of various types of materials, measurements required to test such models and evaluate the functions they predict, and theories required to relate models and measurements. The results are important not only for their academic significance but also for industrial processes like extrusion.

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Robert S. Marvin, National Bureau of Standards.

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Volume 21, Number 5

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