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Impact-Activated Solidification of Cornstarch and Water Suspensions (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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Impact-Activated Solidification of Cornstarch and Water Suspensions (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Series: Springer Theses
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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.
Through this research, it was discovered that the impact resistance
is due to local compression of the particle matrix. This
compression forces the suspension across the jamming transition and
precipitates a rapidly growing solid mass. This growing solid, as a
result, absorbs the impact energy. This is the first observation of
such jamming front, linking nonlinear suspension dynamics in a new
way to the jamming phase transition known from dry granular
materials.
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