Small-scale, instructional shake tables, such as the UCIST shake table, are used at many colleges and universities to provide educational and research experiences in seismic behavior of structural systems. This paper describes the development of a physical model and associated educational materials that demonstrate the seismic behavior of shear walls used in cold-formed steel (CFS) building sys...

Concentrated colloidal suspensions display dramatic rises in viscosity, leading to jamming and granulation, with increasing shear rate. It has been proposed that these effects result from inter particle friction, as lubrication forces are overcome. This suggests the jamming of concentrated colloidal suspensions should exhibit some shared phenomenology with macroscopic granular systems where fri...

The nanoparticles for pharmaceutical application are around now for over 35 years, but only few are commercialized. The major hurdle in its effective utilization is lack of basic understanding in nanosuspension solidification techniques. This study evaluates the efficacy of high shear granulation in converting nanosuspension to solid oral dosage form. Nanosuspension was manufactured using a med...

The combined strong hydraulic selection pressure (HSP) with overstressed organic loading rate (OLR) as a fast granulation strategy was used to enhance aerobic granulation. To investigate the wide applicability of this strategy to different scenarios and its relevant mechanism, different settling times, different inoculums, different exchange ratios, different reactor configurations, and differe...

Mixing a small amount of liquid into powder can give rise to dry-looking granules; increasing the eventually produces flowing suspension. We perform experiments on these phenomena using Spheriglass, an industrially realistic model powder. Drawing recent advances in understanding friction-induced shear thickening and jamming suspensions, we offer unified description granulation suspension rheolo...