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1. State-of-the-art polymer shaping processes
Our focus is on the processing of thermoplastic polymers, whether or not reinforced with fillers or discontinuous fibers, i.e. materials to which the concepts of continuum mechanics can be applied on a macroscopic scale. Thermoset polymers and elastomers are therefore excluded from this analysis, even if some of the approaches we are developing are applicable to them.
It has to be said that most of today's processing techniques (single or twin-screw extrusion, injection molding, hollow-body blow molding, film extrusion blow molding, calendering, etc.) came into being after the Second World War, at the same time as the development of the major commodity polymers. Some of these techniques were, it is true, themselves derived from related industrial sectors (food processing or rubber processing).
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Screw plodders. Swiss Patent no. 363149. MAILLEFER (C.) 1959.
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