AbstractThe mechanism of melt flow instability at drawdown rates below and up to that necessary to compensate for die swell and at drawdown rates exceeding the former is explained with the aid of diagrams and appropriate comment. It is suggested that there is no fundamental difference between the causes of commonly encountered extrudate defects and “draw resonance” which appears in fiber spinning at excessive drawdown rates. It is argued that both are manifestations of viscoelastic phenomena which affect extrudate appearance either not at all due to effective suppression or which give rise to defects of increasing severity when control of the process—including die design and proper consideration of the forces at the die/melt interface—is ina
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