Progress and challenges in suspension rheology

JF Morris - Rheologica Acta, 2023 - Springer
Developments in the last century, and especially in the last 50 years, have advanced
understanding of suspension rheology greatly. Here, a limited review of suspension work …

Rheology of non-Brownian suspensions: a rough contact story

E Lemaire, F Blanc, C Claudet, S Gallier, L Lobry… - Rheologica Acta, 2023 - Springer
This paper presents a compilation of experimental and numerical results that both show that
particles in a suspension under shear flow come into contact through surface roughness …

The characterization of the particle normal stresses of concentrated granular suspensions by local rheometry

E d'Ambrosio, F Blanc, E Lemaire - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
The characterization of the particle normal stresses of concentrated granular suspensions by local
rheometry Page 1 J. Fluid Mech. (2023), vol. 967, A34, doi:10.1017/jfm.2023.518 The …

Optimizing non-Newtonian fluids for impact protection of laminates

JA Richards, DJM Hodgson… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Non-Newtonian fluids can be used for the protection of flexible laminates. Understanding the
coupling between the flow of the protecting fluid and the deformation of the protected solids …

Synthesis of acrylic resin and methacrylic resin microspheres by suspension polymerization

H Yu, J Liu, L Zhao, Y Liu, L Gu, L Feng, Y Weng… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The process of suspension polymerization was utilized to create acrylate resin microspheres
with mesh numbers of 140–200 μm and particle sizes of 100 μm for implementation in mesh …

A mechanism of strain hardening and Bauschinger effect: shear-history-dependent microstructure of elasto-plastic suspensions

S Deboeuf, L Ducloué, N Lenoir, G Ovarlez - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Dispersing solid hard particles in an elasto-plastic material leads to important shear-history
dependence of the behavior, namely strain hardening and Bauschinger effect. Strain …

Leveraging the polymer glass transition to access thermally switchable shear jamming suspensions

C Chen, M van der Naald, A Singh… - ACS Central …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Suspensions of polymeric nano-and microparticles are fascinating stress-responsive
material systems that, depending on their composition, can display a diverse range of flow …

Mass and momentum balance during particle migration in the pressure-driven flow of frictional non-Brownian suspensions

M Orsi, L Lobry, E Lemaire, F Peters - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
The transient shear-induced particle migration of frictional non-Brownian suspensions is
studied using particle-resolved simulations. The numerical method–the fictitious domain …

The role of rolling resistance in the rheology of wizarding quidditch ball suspensions

E d'Ambrosio, DL Koch, S Hormozi - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
To elucidate the effect of particle shape on the rheology of a dense, viscous suspension of
frictional, non-Brownian particles, experimental measurements are presented for …

Discontinuous shear thickening (DST) transition with spherical iron particles coated by adsorbed brush polymer

G Bossis, Y Grasselli, O Volkova - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We explore the rheology of very concentrated (0.55< Φ< 0.67) suspensions of carbonyl iron
particles coated by a small polymer. A strong discontinuous shear thickening (DST) is …