Resistance to shear

Amauroux, N, Petit, J. and Leger, L., Role of interfacial resistance to shear stress on adhesive peel strength. Langmuir, 17(21), 6510-6517 (2001). 

Neoprene latex 115 contains a copolymer of chloroprene and methacrylic acid, stabilized with polyvinyl alcohol [15], With respect to other polychloroprene latices, this latex has two major advantages (1) excellent colloidal stability, which gives high resistance to shear and a broad tolerance to several materials ... 

Non-llocculated suspensions can exist at very much higher concentrations and, at all but file highest volumetric concentrations, are often Newtonian. When such suspensions are sheared, some dilation occurs as a result of particles trying to "climb over each other . If the amount of liquid present is then insufficient fully to till the void spaces, particle-particle solid friction can come into play and the resistance to shear increases. This is just one way in which shear-thickening can occur. 

The viscosity of a fluid is an important property in the analysis of liquid behavior and fluid motion near solid boundaries. Viscosity is the fluid resistance to shear or flow and is a measure of the adhesive/cohesive or frictional fluid property. The resistance is caused by intermolecular friction exerted when layers of fluids attempt to slide by one another. 

Compared to partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide, xanthan gum is more expensive, more susceptible to bacterial degradation, and less stable at elevated temperatures (1). However, xanthan gum is more soluble in saline waters, particularly those containing divalent metal ions generally adsorbs less on rock surfaces and is substantially more resistant to shear degradation (1,34). The extensional viscosity of the semi-rigid xanthan molecule is less that that of the flexible polyacrylamide (263). 

Thus, in simple metals, interactions between dislocations rather than interactions between atoms, are most important. The hardnesses of metals depend on deformation hardening (dislocation interactions) rather than individual mobilities. The elastic resistance to shear plays a dominant role because it is directly involved with dislocation mobility. 

The Group IV elements also show a linear correlation of their octahedral shear moduli, C44(lll) with chemical hardness density (Eg/2Vm).This modulus is for for shear strains on the (111) planes. It is a measure of the shear stiffnesses of the covalent bonds. The (111) planes lie normal to the bonds that connect the atoms in the diamond (or zinc blende) structure. In terms of the three standard moduli for cubic symmetry (Cn, Q2, and C44), the octahedral shear modulus is given by C44(lll) = 3CV1 + [4C44/(Cn - Ci2)]. Since the (111) planes have three-fold symmetry, they have only one shear modulus. The bonds across the octahedral planes have high resistance to shear which probably results from electron correlation in the bonds (Gilman, 2002). 

Hardness measures the resistance of a material to a permanent change of shape. That is, the resistance to shear deformation (not the resistance to a volume change). The precursor to a permanent shape change is a temporary elastic shape change, and a shear modulus determines this. Therefore, the first necessity for high hardness is a high shear modulus. 

It is worth noting what determines elastic resistance to shear. Both shape changes and volume changes are determined by the behavior of the valence electrons in materials, but in quite different ways. Volume changes affect the average distances between the electrons, and between the valence electrons and their associated positive nuclei. Shear changes have little, or no, effect on these average distances because small shears do not affect volumes. However, shear causes a shift in the centroid of the electrons relative to the nucleus. 

PET is not strictly Newtonian, or else it could not be fiber-forming. Polymers with the latter property develop increasing tension due to retraction forces as they become oriented, so that localized necks do not grow and become discontinuities. At high shear rates, molecular orientation will also reduce the resistance to shearing. 

A particulate mass may offer a significant resistance to both shear and tensile forces, and this is specially marked when there is a significant amount of agglomeration. Even in non-agglomerating powders there is some resistance to relative movement between the particles and it is always necessary for the bed to dilate, that is for the particles to move apart, to some extent before internal movement can take place. The greater the density of packing, the higher will be this resistance to shear and tension. 

A monomolecular film is resistant to shear stress in the plane of the surface, as is also the case in the bulk phase a liquid is retarded in its flow by viscous forces. The viscosity of the monolayer may indeed be measured in two dimensions by flow through a canal on a surface or by its drag on a ring in the surface, corresponding to the Ostwald and Couette instruments for the study of bulk viscosities. The surface viscosity, r s, is defined by the relation... 

In addition to temperature, the viscosity of these mixtures can change dramatically over time, or even with applied shear. Liquids or solutions whose viscosity changes with time or shear rate are said to be non-Newtonian, that is, viscosity can no longer be considered a proportionality constant between the shear stress and the shear rate. In solutions containing large molecules and suspensions contain nonattracting aniso-metric particles, flow can orient the molecules or particles. This orientation reduces the resistance to shear, and the stress required to increase the shear rate diminishes with increasing shear rate. This behavior is often described by an empirical power law equation that is simply a variation of Eq. (4.3), and the fluid is said to be a power law fluid ... 

For filter belt presses and centrifuges, resistance to shear and mechanical pressure is the most important parameter. In general, floes produced by charge patch neutralization are stronger than those produced by inorganic salts alone. 

Paste properties of native starches from different botanical origins have been reviewed.92,133 Relevant to practical usage of starch, the most important paste properties are viscosity, texture, paste transparency, resistance to shear and tendency to retrograde. In terms of texture, the translucent potato starch pastes can be described as cohesive, long-bodied, stringy and rubbery. Other root, tuber and waxy starches give pastes of similar texture to that of potato starch, but are generally less cohesive. On the other hand, pastes from common cereal starches are opaque and can be described as noncohesive and short- and heavy-bodied. These and other properties of several native starches are summarized in Table 8.1. 

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