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- Written by a leading expert on rheology and fluid mechanics
- Provides a deep understanding of the deformation and flow of soft matter
- Offers a thorough and up-to-date coverage of the field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Soft and Biological Matter (SOBIMA)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents a unified view of the physicochemical origin of the mechanical behaviour of gases, simple solids and liquids, suspensions, polymers, emulsions, foams, and granular materials, along with techniques for measuring that behaviour. Besides molecular materials in all their classical gaseous, solid, or liquid states, we deal daily with a number of other materials made of coarser elements such as polymers, cells, grains, bubbles, and droplets. They take on the familiar appearance of paints, inks, cements, muds, foams, emulsions, toothpastes, gels, etc. These materials exhibit complex structures and sometimes amazing types of mechanical behaviour, often intermediate between those of a simple liquid and a simple solid. From a practical standpoint, the aim is to analyze their internal evolution (aging, restructuring, phase separation, etc.), then to formulate these materials in accordance with the desired properties, and thereby devise new materials. With that aim in mind, it is crucial to understand how these materials deform or flow, depending on the interactions and structures formed by the elements they contain. This book is intended for students as well as more advanced researchers in mechanics, physics, chemistry, and biology. The mathematical formalism is reduced in order to focus on physical explanations.
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“This exceptionally clear textbook on rheology by Philippe Coussot represents a basic complement for undergraduate and graduate courses of materials physics and chemistry for both the degrees of Materials Science and Materials Engineering. The author owes the outstanding cross-disciplinary quality of the book to his personal experience in applied research related to civil engineering. … a good teacher can easily expand finding in any case the appropriate seed in this excellent book.” (Giorgio Benedek, Il Nuovo Saggiatore, en.sif.it, Vol. 31 (1-2), 2015)
Authors and Affiliations
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Laboratoire Navier, Université Paris-Est, Champs-sur-Marne, France
Philippe Coussot
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rheophysics
Book Subtitle: Matter in all its States
Authors: Philippe Coussot
Series Title: Soft and Biological Matter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06148-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-06147-4Published: 03 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38016-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-06148-1Published: 17 June 2014
Series ISSN: 2213-1736
Series E-ISSN: 2213-1744
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 321
Number of Illustrations: 126 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Original French edition published by EDP Sciences, Les Ulis, France, 2012
Topics: Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Physical Chemistry, Solid Mechanics, Classical and Continuum Physics, Polymer Sciences