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Rheological Characterization of Systems with Plastic Flow Behavior



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D. Hadjistamov

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DOI:10.17265/2161-6213/2024.1-3.002

DECE GmbH, Riehen 4125, Switzerland

Model suspensions with plastic flow behavior were investigated rheologically. Shear stress and first normal stress difference were measured simultaneously with shear flow start-up experiments. After the shear deformation is stopped, the stress relaxation begins, residual shear stress can appear. The relative residual shear stress τRR is the ratio of the residual shear stress to the steady state shear stress. The relative residual shear stress is considered as a measure of the structure of the system. In the case of τ_RR = 0.98, we assume that an elastic to plastic deformation is occurred, which is the yield point. The system with 7.5% Aerosil 380 has achieved with τ_RR = 0.95 in the first approximation the transition to plastic flow, this is the yield point for the system, with a yield stress of 23 Pa. This is the only one known system with yield point. The systems with τ_RR > 0.30 and τ_RR < 0.95 at the first point, have no transition from elastic to plastic flow, but the structure is strongly destroyed. Analogous to the above, the shear stress at this point will be called yield stress. One requirement is that the start-up experiment is determined with a very low shear rate ―0.0007 1/s or 0.00096 1/s. The associated normal stress to the yield stress is called normal yield stress. The dependence of the normal stress of the systems with Aerosil 380 on the shear stress reached, after a short increase/decrease in the values, the straight line of the normal stress/shear stress of the liquid phase M20000. A linear relationship between normal stress and shear stress was found in the systems with Bentone 27 in Araldite GY260. With a certain measured normal stress / shear stress point, you can draw a straight line with 45° in the double logarithmic plot ―a way to receive the normal stress / shear stress points.

Rheology, yield point, yield stress, normal stress-shear stress.