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The breakup of liquid bridges under the action of capillary forces is used for studying the rheology of suspensions under stretching. The experiments were performed with suspensions of finegrained (3–30 µm) sand in glycerin for sand volume fractions up to 0.465. The bridge thinning process was registered using an electro-optical measuring device and videofilming. The results were analyzed on the basis of a theory developed earlier for the thinning of a liquid bridge under the action of capillary forces. It is found that, for fairly slow stretching realized in the initial stage of the thinning, the rheological behavior of the suspensions considered agrees with the model of a Newtonian viscous fluid. Along with this, the measured effective viscosity of the suspension turned out to be approximately two-fold greater than the suspension viscosity under shear. The origin of this discrepancy is analyzed. With increase in the stretching rate, in the final stage of the thinning, the weakening of the suspension occurs, which is manifested in the formation of a local rapidly thinning neck in the bridge, similar to that observed in the breakup of plastic materials.
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Original Russian Text ©A.N. Alexandrou, A.V. Bazilevskii, V.M. Entov, A.N. Rozhkov, A. Sharaf, 2010, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, 2010, Vol. 45, No. 6, pp. 133–147.
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Alexandrou, A.N., Bazilevskii, A.V., Entov, V.M. et al. Breakup of a capillary bridge of suspensions. Fluid Dyn 45, 952–964 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S001546281006013X
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