Journal article
The role of viscoelasticity in polymer sintering
Abstract
Abstract An experimental study for polymer sintering has been carried out using pairs of powder particles. Although in many cases Newtonian sintering models successfully describe polymer sintering, they predict a faster coalescence rate than that observed with the polypropylene copolymer resins used in this study, indicating that factors other than the surface tension and the viscosity play a role in polymer sintering. Observations of …
Authors
Bellehumeur CT; Kontopoulou M; Vlachopoulos J
Journal
Rheologica Acta, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 270–278
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
6 1998
DOI
10.1007/s003970050114
ISSN
0035-4511