Title Impact-Activated Solidification of Cornstarch and Water Suspensions Author(s) Waitukaitis, Scott R Publication Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2015. Description XVIII, 88 p. 53 illus., 20 illus. in color : online resource Abstract Note 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 ISBN,Price 9783319091839 Keyword(s) 1. Amorphous substances 2. Complex fluids 3. EBOOK 4. EBOOK - SPRINGER 5. Fluid- and Aerodynamics 6. FLUIDS 7. MICROSCOPY 8. Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics 9. SPECTROSCOPY 10. Spectroscopy and Microscopy Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I05941     On Shelf