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Mitigating Flow Rate Drift and Tube Rupture: Entropic Elasticity Degradation and Hagen-Poiseuille Analysis of Silicone Tubing

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Within automated fluid dispensing systems, high-throughput biopharmaceutical filling operations, and precise chemical dosing pipelines, peristaltic pump delivery channels face rigorous mechanical wear. Liquid propulsion is achieved by subjecting the flexible conduit—Silicone Tubing—to continuous, high-frequency, completely occluding compression by rapid metallic rollers. This continuous cyclic deformation is highly taxing to structural polymers. Over extended operational cycles, […]