Shear thickening in dense particulate suspensions was recently proposed to be driven by the activation of friction above an onset stress needed to overcome repulsive forces between particles. Testing this scenario represents a major challenge because classical rheological approaches do not provide access to the frictional properties of suspensions. Here we adopt a different strategy inspired by...

Concentrated suspensions of inclusions occur in asphalt and dental composite resins. Concentrated suspensions are also of use in achieving a combination of high stiffness and loss (the product E tan d ), desirable in damping layer and structural damping applications. For realizable particulate microstructures, analytical solutions for monodisperse inclusion morphologies such as spherical, rando...

• Arterial lesions resembling arteriosclerosis produced by reticuloendothelial system blockade have been demonstrated by Patek and Bernickwho injected carbon or thorium dioxide into rats and rabbits; by Shimamoto who injected tissue and bacterial potysaecharides, bacterial exotoxins, killed bacteria, dextran and glycogen, and kaolin into rabbits, rats and guinea pigs; by Lautsch et al. who inje...

We provide a reciprocal relation linking the effective conductivity of a composite with highly conducting phase interfaces to that of a composite with the same phase geometry but with an electrical contact resistance at phase interfaces. A field relationship linking the electric field inside a composite with highly conducting phase interfaces to the current in a composite with contact resistanc...

We provide a reciprocal relation linking the eeective conductivity of a composite with highly conducting phase interfaces to that of a composite with the same phase geometry but with an electrical contact resistance at phase interfaces. A eld relationship linking the electric eld inside a composite with highly conducting phase interfaces to the current in a composite with contact resistance bet...

We provide a reciprocal relation linking the e ective conductivity of a composite with highly conducting phase interfaces to that of a composite with the same phase geometry but with an electrical contact resistance at phase interfaces. A eld relationship linking the electric eld inside a composite with highly conducting phase interfaces to the current in a composite with contact resistance bet...

Solid particles dispersed in a liquid phase modifies the pinch-off of droplets. Compared to monodisperse particles, bimodal distribution reduces viscosity for given volume fraction and makes detachment process faster.

In the present work we deal with the scattering dispersion and attenuation of elastic waves in different types of nonhomogeneous media. The iterative effective medium approximation based on a single scattering consideration, for the estimation of wave dispersion and attenuation, proposed in Tsinopoulos et al., [Adv. Compos. Lett. 9, 193-200 (2000)] is examined herein not only for solid componen...

The aim of this Letter is to characterize the flow regimes of suspensions of finite-size rigid particles in a viscous fluid at finite inertia. We explore the system behavior as a function of the particle volume fraction and the Reynolds number (the ratio of flow and particle inertia to viscous forces). Unlike single-phase flows, where a clear distinction exists between the laminar and the turbu...