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Impact-Activated Solidification of Cornstarch and Water Suspensions

Impact-Activated Solidification of Cornstarch and Water Suspensions

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Series: Springer Theses

General SciencePhysics

ISBN10: 3319091824
ISBN13: 9783319091822
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 12 2014
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This thesis approaches impact resistance in dense suspensions from a new perspective. The most well-known example of dense suspensions, a mixture of cornstarch and water, provides enough impact resistance to allow a person to run across its surface. In the past, this phenomenon had been linked to shear thickening under a steady shear state attributed to hydrodynamic interactions or granular dilation. However, neither explanation accounted for the stress scales required for a person to run on the surface.

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