Materials enabling impact-energy absorption of high-velocity projectiles are great interest for applications like aerospace. In such a frame, shear thickening fluids were found very useful. Here, we investigated nanorheological properties neat and aqueous polyelectrolytes low molecular weights containing poly([2-(methacryloyloxy) ethyl] trimethyl ammonium) as polycations poly(acrylamide-co-acry...

The penetration behavior of Kevlar fabric intercalated with dry particles and shear thickening fluids (STF), highly concentrated fluid-particle suspensions, is presented. In particular, the role of particle hardness is explored by comparing fabric treatments containing SiO(2) particles, which are significantly harder than Kevlar, to treatments containing softer poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) ...

This study investigates the effect of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) on high strain rate properties fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) fabric impregnated with shear thickening fluids (STF). Three GFRP-STF and twelve GFRP-MWCNT/STF composite specimens were conducted using a split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB). Spherical silica nanoparticles (20.0 wt%) polyethylene glycol used to prepare sili...

Title of Document: Self-Assembled Photoresponsive and Thermoresponsive Fluids with Tunable Rheology Rakesh Kumar, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Directed By: Professor Srinivasa R. Raghavan, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Fluids whose rheological properties can be tuned by light or heat (termed as photorheological (PR) or thermorheological (TR) fluids, respectively) have attrac...

Integrated whole-body 18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET/CT) is a non-invasive imaging technique for identifying several types of malignant diseases. We evaluated the role of PET/CT in distinguishing malignant from benign pleural diseases. Thirty patients, who had pleural abnormalities on computed tomography (CT), such as thickening, fluid with suspicion...

rheological characteristics of al2o3, cuo and tio2 nano particles were investigated in oil asthe base fluid at 1 and 2 wt.%. constitutive relations for non-newtonian fluid were discussedbased on the power-law model. measured viscosities of each nanofluid were used to evaluatethe power-law and consistency index. results indicated that the nanofluid viscosity decreasedby increasing the concentrat...

Abstract We study the dynamic behaviour of two viscous fluid films confined between concentric cylinders rotating at a small relative velocity. It is assumed that fluids are immiscible and volume outer film large compared to inner one. Moreover, while considered have constant viscosity, rheological thin determined by strain-dependent power-law. Starting from Navier–Stokes system, we formally de...