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Although aH these models provide a description of the rheological behavior of very dry foams, they do not adequately describe the behavior of foams that have more fluid in them. The shear modulus of wet foams must ultimately go to zero as the volume fraction of the bubbles decreases. The foam only attains a solid-like behavior when the bubbles are packed at a sufficiently large volume fraction that they begin to deform. In fact, it is the additional energy of the bubbles caused by their deformation that must lead to the development of a shear modulus. However, exactly how this modulus develops, and its dependence on the volume fraction of gas, is not fuHy understood. 

Granular Beds of Particulate Solids Beds of solids like sand or coal are used as filter media to clarify water or chemical solutions containing small quantities of suspended particles. Filter-grade grains of desired particTe size can be purchasea. Frequently beds will be constructed of layers of different materials and different particle sizes. 

This linear relationship between stress and strain is a very handy one when calculating the response of a solid to stress, but it must be remembered that most solids are elastic only to very small strains up to about 0.001. Beyond that some break and some become plastic - and this we will discuss in later chapters. A few solids like rubber are elastic up to very much larger strains of order 4 or 5, but they cease to be linearly elastic (that is the stress is no longer proportional to the strain) after a strain of about 0.01. 

We can use the same sort of approach to look at phase changes in solids, like the a-y transformation in iron. Then, as we saw in Chapter 5, the driving force is given by... 

Erosion can be caused by small particles not visible to the human eye, like dissolved minerals in hard water. Larger solids like sand, boiler scale, and rust can also cause serious erosion inside the pump. 

Fig. 12. Schematic representation of solid-like (crystalline), amorphous solid, and liquid-like surface layers (reproduced from [87], copyright American Chemical Society).

We only briefly mentioned alkaline stabilization, but in reality this is a variation of sludge pasteurization. The basic process uses elevated pH and temperature to produce a stabilized, disinfected product. The two alkaline stabilization systems most common in the U.S. are a lime pasteurization system and a cement kiln dust pasteurization system. The lime pasteurization product has a wet-cake consistency, while the kiln dust pasteurization has a moist solid like consistency. Both products can be transported to agricultural areas for ultimate use. Literature studies show that the kiln dust product can capture a marketable value of 6.60/Mg ( 6.00/ton) to offset hauling costs, while the lime product does not appear to be able to capture financial credits for product revenues at this point in time. The reasons for this are not entirely clear. 

This stick-slip cycle, observed for all types of film compounds ranging from long-chain (e.g., hexadecane) to spheroidal [e.g., octamethylcyclotetra-siloxane (OMCTS)] hydrocarbons [21], has been attributed by Gee et al. [30] to the formation of solid-like films that pin the walls together (region of sticking) and must be made to flow plastically in order for the walls to slip. This suggests that the structure of the walls induces the formation of a solid film when the walls are properly registered and that this film melts when... 

If confined phases are exposed to a shear strain, their unique structure, analyzed in the previous section, permits them to sustain a remarkable stress. This is a consequence of mere confinement and is not necessarily coupled to the presence of any solid-like structures of the confined phase [133]. The effect of an exposure to shear stress(es) can be investigated experimentally with the SFA (see Sec. IIA 1). A key quantity determined (in principle) experimentally is the shear stress By using arguments similar to the ones for (see Sec. IV A 1), virial and force expressions for can... 

A width (compared to about 5 A for the free water surface). The authors observed a continuous change of the self-diffusion coefficient from liquidlike to solid-like values over this interval. The results have been extensively reviewed by Laird and Haymet [197]. 

Vapor pressure is an important property of liquids, and to a much lesser extent, of solids. If a liquid is allowed to evaporate in a confined space, tlie pressure of Uie vapor phase increases as Uie amount of vapor increases. If Uiere is sufficient liquid present, Uie pressure in Uie vapor space eventually comes to equal exacUy Uie pressure exerted by the liquid at its own surface. At Uiis point, a dynamic equilibrium exists in wliich vaporization and condensation take place at equal rates and Uie pressure in Uie vapor space remains constant. The pressure exerted at equilibrium is called Uie vapor pressure of the liquid. Solids, like liquids, also exert a vapor pressure. EvaporaUon of solids (sublimaUon) is noUccable only for Uie few solids characterized by appreciable vapor pressures. 

Viewed in conjunction with the solid-like, nonvolatile nature of ionic liquids, it is apparent that TSILs can be thought of as liquid versions of solid-supported reagents. Unlike solid-supported reagents, however, TSILs possess the added advantages of kinetic mobility of the grafted functionality and an enormous operational surface area (Figure 2.3-1). It is this combination of features that makes TSILs an aspect of ionic liquids chemistry that is poised for explosive growth. 

When an ionic solid like sodium chloride is melted, the molten salt conducts electric current. The conductivity is like that of an aqueous salt solution Na+ and Cl- ions are present. The extremely high melting temperature (808°C) shows that a large amount of energy is needed to tfear apart the regular NaCl crystalline arrangement to free the ions so they can move. 

Viscoelastic fluids are thus capable of exerting normal stresses. Because most materials, under appropriate circumstances, show simultaneously solid-like and fluid-like behaviours in varying proportions, the notion of an ideal elastic solid or of a purely viscous fluid represents the commonly encountered limiting condition. For instance, the viscosity of ice and the elasticity of water may both pass unnoticed The response of a material may also depend upon the type of deformation to which it is subjected. A material may behave like a highly elastic solid in one flow situation, and like a viscous fluid in another. 

The value of the coefficient will depend on the mechanism by which heat is transferred, on the fluid dynamics of both the heated and the cooled fluids, on the properties of the materials through which the heat must pass, and on the geometry of the fluid paths. In solids, heat is normally transferred by conduction some materials such as metals have a high thermal conductivity, whilst others such as ceramics have a low conductivity. Transparent solids like glass also transmit radiant energy particularly in the visible part of the spectrum. 

As the density of a gas increases, free rotation of the molecules is gradually transformed into rotational diffusion of the molecular orientation. After unfreezing , rotational motion in molecular crystals also transforms into rotational diffusion. Although a phenomenological description of rotational diffusion with the Debye theory [1] is universal, the gas-like and solid-like mechanisms are different in essence. In a dense gas the change of molecular orientation results from a sequence of short free rotations interrupted by collisions [2], In contrast, reorientation in solids results from jumps between various directions defined by a crystal structure, and in these orientational sites libration occurs during intervals between jumps. We consider these mechanisms to be competing models of molecular rotation in liquids. The only way to discriminate between them is to compare the theory with experiment, which is mainly spectroscopic. 

Of course, the effect of excluded volume is opposite and greatly exceeds that shown in Fig. 1.10, which is produced by uncorrelated collective interaction. Unfortunately, neither of them results in sign-alternating behaviour of angular or translational momentum correlation functions. This does not have a simple explanation either in gas-like or solid-like models of liquids. As is clearly seen from MD calculations, even in... 

As one would expect, the rate of orientational relaxation in the jump model is activated, and the higher the libration barrier U0, the lower the rate. However, the Hubbard relation obtained as a result of Eq. (1.123) used in Eq. (2.96) does not involve this characteristic parameter of the solid-like model ... 

However, for the lubricants with lower viscosity, e.g.. Polyglycol oil 1 and 2 with the kinetic viscosity of 47 mm /s to 145 mm /s in Table 1, the transition from EHL to TFL can be seen at the speed of 8 mm/sand23 mm/s, i.e., the relationship between film thickness and speed becomes much weaker than that in EHL. The transition regime can be explained when the film reduces to several times the thickness of the molecular size, the effect of solid surface forces on the action of molecules becomes so strong that the lubricant molecules become more ordered or solid like. The thickness of such a film is related to the lubricant viscosity or molecular size. 

The relationship between the isoviscosity rj and the him thickness is shown in Fig. 28 in which is calculated according to Eq (5) from the experimental data as shown in Fig. 25. When the him is thicker than 25 nm, the isoviscosities of hexadecane with or without LC remain a constant that is approximately equal to the bulk viscosity. As the him becomes thinner, their isoviscosities increase at different extents for different additives. When the him thickness is about 7 nm, the isoviscosity of pure hexadecane is about two times its bulk viscosity, about three times for CP, four times for CA, six times for CAL, and more than ten times for CB. Thus, it can be concluded that the addition of a polar compound into base oil is a beneht to the formation of thicker solid-like layer. 

Boundary lubrication (BL) can also evolve into TFL in a bottom-up way [11]. Compared to BL, TFL has a thicker film. In the vicinity of solid walls, the liquid molecules take the states of that of the boundary film, the ordered one, and the disordered one, from the wall surfaces to the center of the gap. From a mechanical point of view, the existence of an ordered film makes the lubricant film differ strongly from the boundary film, which can form a glassy state or solid-like... 

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