Rheophysics

Preface.- Foreword.- Contents.- Symbols.- Introduction.- Introduction.- Solids.- Liquids.- Suspensions.- Colloids.- Polymers.- Emulsions.- Foams.- Granulars.- Real materials.- Simple Materials.- Introduction.- Interactions between elementary components and states of simple matter.- Gaseous state.- Liquid state.- Solid state.- Glassy state.- Suspensions.- Introduction.- Preparation of a suspension.- Effect of the presence of particles on the behavior of the mixture.- Effect of particle concentration.- Effect of the particle anisotropy.- Effect of the heterogeneity of particle concentration.- Shear-thickening.- Suspensions in a yield stress fluid.- Polymers.- Introduction.- Structure of polymers.- A polymer in a liquid.- Several chains in a liquid.- Reticulated polymers and polymeric gels.- Mechanical behavior of liquid polymers.- Impact of temperature.- Colloids.- Introduction.- Brownian motion.- van der Waals forces.- Electrostatic forces.- Effect of absorbed polymers.- Depletion interactions.- Sum of the interactions.- Behavior of repulsive systems.- Attractive systems.- Pasty-hydrodynamic transition.- Emulsions - Foams.- Introduction.- Physical properties at the scale of the inclusions.- Preparation.- Stability.- Behavior.- Granulars.- Introduction.- Main types of direct interactions.- Role of the configuration.- Behavior regimes.- Frictional regime.- Coalitional regime.- Intermediate regimes.- Rheometry.- Introduction.- Basic geometries.- Effects perturbating the measures.- Experimental procedures.- Practical techniques.- Appendix A - Fluid Mechanics : Basic Principles and physical Origins.- Introduction.- Flow variables.- Continuum assumption.- Forces at play.- Mass conservation.- Momentum equation.- Temporal fluctuations.- Turbulence.- Solution of a flow problem.- Constitutive equations.- Generalities.- Strain rate tensor.- Simplified form of the constitutive equation.- Simple shear.- Elongation.- Energy dissipation.- Main types of constitutive equations.- Appendix B - Basics of Thermodynamics.- First principle.- Entropy.- Second principle.- Free energy.- Energy distribution.- Index.