Shear and elongational rheology of gypsum slurries

  • Suman Sinha-Ray
  • , Raman Srikar
  • , C. C. Lee
  • , A. Li
  • , Alexander L. Yarin*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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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

    • General Materials Science
    • Condensed Matter Physics

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