Rheology of SiO2/(acrylic polymer/epoxy) suspensions. I. Linear viscoelasticity

Paper for Rheologica Acta Rheology of SiO2/(Acrylic Polymer/Epoxy) Suspensions. I. Linear Viscoelasticity

A thermodynamic theory of solid viscoelasticity. Part I: Linear viscoelasticity

The present series of three consecutive papers develops a general theory for linear and fmite solid viscoelasticity. Because the most important object for nonlinear studies are rubber-like materials, the general approach is specified in a form convenient for solving problems important for many industries that involve rubber-like materials. General linear and nonlinear theories for non-isotherma...

Nonequilibrium structure and rheology of concentrated colloidal suspensions: Linear response

We propose a simple theory for the pair distribution function of a sheared colloidal suspension. The starting point is an exact equation for the stationary state pair distribution. We assume that in a shear flow the higher order distributions can be expressed through the pair distribution in the same way as in an equilibrium state. To get explicit results we use a simple decoupling approximatio...

Extensional rheology of active suspensions.

A simple model is presented for the effective extensional rheology of a dilute suspension of active particles, such as self-propelled microswimmers, extending previous classical studies on suspensions of passive rodlike particles. Neglecting particle-particle hydrodynamic interactions, we characterize the configuration of the suspension by an orientation distribution, which satisfies a Fokker-P...

The rheology of fibre suspensions

We review theoretical work on the rheology of fibre suspensions. We seek to clarify one or two confusions in published work and also give a small improvement to Batchelor’s formula for extensional viscosity of suspensions of long fibres between the dilute and semi-dilute régimes.