This paper deals with a theoretical study of the shear thickening effects in concentrated suspensions of non-Brownian particles. Our analysis shows that an increase of the shear rate of the suspension flow leads to a decrease of the mean thickness of the gaps between the nearest particles in dense suspensions. In turn, this leads to the growth of energy dissipation in these gaps, which means an...

Cereal Chern. 75(3):354-359 The solution rheological behaviors of OATRIM-1O and cooked oat bran were investigated. The rheological properties of the materials were investigated using both thixotropic loop and small-amplitude oscillatory shear experiments. The cooked oat bran exhibited shear-thinning behavior during a thixotropic loop experiment over a shear rate range of a250/sec. The shear-thi...

We show that bent-core liquid crystalline materials exhibit non-Newtonian flow in their optically isotropic liquid phase. We conjecture that this behavior is due to the existence of nanostructured, fluctuating clusters composed of a few smectic-like layers. Shear alignment of these clusters explains the shear thinning observed in bent-core liquid crystals having either a nematic phase or nonmod...

During the past few decades, interest in understanding peculiar rheological behavior of shear-thickening fluids has increased due to their potential use various commercial applications. In such an endeavor, optimal design these is essential, which necessitates our in-depth properties from a modeling perspective. We herein introduce continuum model predict polymer solutions using non-equilibrium...

The vibration attenuation mechanism of shear thickening fluid- (STF-) filled sandwich structures was investigated in this study. Structural equivalent damping, stiffness, and mass increased simultaneously with the increase volume fraction fluid. However, damping ratio decreased natural frequency structural mass. Thus, not a monotonically increasing function STF. A modified strain model layer de...