Shear and elongational rheology of gypsum slurries

Suman Sinha-Ray, Raman Srikar, C. C. Lee, A. Li, Alexander L. Yarin

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Abstract

Concentrated gypsum slurries used for wallboard production are studied using shear and elongational rheometers. It is shown that the rheological behavior of different slurry compositions can be sufficiently accurately described in the framework of the Ostwald-de Waele power law, which reproduces both shear and elongational experimemtal data with sufficiently close values of the consistency and flow behavior indexes for each slurry composition studied.

Original languageEnglish
Article number63071
JournalApplied Rheology
Volume21
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011

Keywords

  • Capillary thread thinning
  • Elongational rheology
  • Flow curve
  • Gypsum slurry
  • Power-law fluid
  • Shear rheology

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Materials Science(all)
  • Condensed Matter Physics

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