Impact-Activated Solidification of Cornstarch and Water Suspensions
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 &q...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2015, 2015
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2015 |
Series: | Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research
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Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Freely Accelerating Impact into Cornstarch and Water Suspensions
- Dynamic Jamming Fronts in a Model 2D System
- Speed-Controlled Impact into Cornstarch and Water Suspensions
- Results and Conclusions
- A: Penetration Regime in Freely Accelerating Impact
- B: Details of X-Ray Experiments
- C: Detailed Discussion of Added Mass
- D: "Viscous" Model for Impact
- E: Cornstarch Particle Modulus
- F: 1D Model of Particles Immersed in a Viscous Liquid