The bucket rheometer for shear stress-shear rate measurement of industrial suspensions

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 821-831

  Fisher, Daniel T ^a   Clayton, Sam A ^b   Boger, David V ^a   Scales, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capillary rheometer; Nickel laterites; Suspensions; Vane rheology; Yield stress

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; CAPILLARY FLOW; PARTICLE SIZE; RHEOMETERS; SHEAR STRESS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); YIELD STRESS;

CAPILLARY RHEOMETERS; NICKEL LATERITE; VANE RHEOLOGY;

VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34548216248     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.2750657     Document Type: Article

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