Viscosity Measurement in a Lubricant Film Using an Ultrasonically Resonating Matching Layer

Tribology Letters

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Schirru, M ^a   Mills, R ^a   Dwyer Joyce, R ^a   Smith, O ^b   Sutton, M ^b  

^a Leonardo Centre for Tribology   (United Kingdom)

^b LUBRIZOL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Lubricant; Matching layer; Maxwell model; Non Newtonian; Resonance; Thin film; Ultrasound; Ultrasound viscometer; Viscometer; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; LUBRICANTS; MIXTURES; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; RESONANCE; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; SOLID LUBRICANTS; THIN FILMS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS; VISCOMETERS; VISCOSITY;

DISPERSED POLYMERS; EXCITATION FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT; MATCHING LAYER; MAXWELL MODELS; NON-NEWTONIAN; SOLID-LIQUID BOUNDARY; ULTRASONIC FREQUENCY;

VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84947247100     PISSN: 10238883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-015-0619-x     Document Type: Article

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