A comparison of three different methods for measuring both normal stress differences of viscoelastic liquids in torsional rheometers

Rheologica Acta

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 191-200

  Alcoutlabi, Mataz ^a   Baek, S G ^b   Magda, J J ^a   Shi, Xiangfu ^c   Hutcheson, S A ^c   McKenna, G B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b RheoSense Inc   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Normal stresses; Rheology; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE SENSORS; RHEOMETERS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHEAR FLOW; STRESS MEASUREMENT; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 61349095333     PISSN: 00354511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00397-008-0330-z     Document Type: Article

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