The Effect of Elastic Modulus Rate in Stress Controlled Tests on the Modified Jeffrey’s Model for Structured Fluids

Abstract:

Structured fluids are known to be dependable of their structural level. Examples of such fluids may be found in different industries as chemical, biomedical, manufacturing, food and oil. The mathematical models to describe structured fluids are normally composed by a coupled system: one constitutive equation (based on viscoelastic models) and one kinetics equation (an equation which describes the structural level evolution in time of the material). The works found in the literature use linear viscoelastic constitutive equations which do not account the dependence of the elastic modulus with the microstructural level in their fundamental hypothesis. In this sense, the present work aims to evaluate, through numerical simulation, the effect of a new constitutive equation in rheological tests and compare its results to those of the model developed by Souza Mendes and Thompson (2013), in which those considerations are not made.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 751)
• Pages: 102-108
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.751.102
• Online since: April 2015
• Authors: Tainan Gabardo Miranda dos Santos*, Hilbeth Parente Azikri de Deus, Cezar Otaviano Ribeiro Negrão
• Keywords: Stress Controlled Test, Structured Fluids, Thixotropy

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