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    A dilatant (/daɪˈleɪtənt/, /dɪ-/) (also termed shear thickening) material is one in which viscosity increases with the rate of shear strain. Such a shear...
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  • automotive engine shell bearings and to a lesser extent in geartooth contacts. Dilatant, or shear-thickening fluids increase in apparent viscosity at higher shear...
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  • non-Newtonian fluid's viscosity, there are pseudoplastic, plastic, and dilatant flows that are time-independent, and there are thixotropic and rheopectic...
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  • but flows easily when not under pressure. However, oobleck is actually a dilatant fluid, since it does not show the time-dependent, shear-induced change...
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    non-Newtonian fluid's viscosity, there are pseudoplastic, plastic, and dilatant flows that are time-independent, and there are thixotropic and rheopectic...
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    critical state soil mechanics; highly overconsolidated clayey soils are dilatant, while normally consolidated soils tend to be contractive. The shear strength...
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    Typical stress strain curve for a drained dilatant soil...
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  • n = 1 then the fluid is a Newtonian fluid. n > 1 then the fluid is a dilatant. The relationship between the shear stress and shear rate in a casson fluid...
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    on the shear rate at which it is measured. The apparent viscosity of a dilatant fluid is higher when measured at a higher shear rate (η4 is higher than...
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    assembly and a driven shaft at the other end. The drum is filled with a dilatant fluid, often silicone-based, to about 80% by volume. When the two sets...
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    has the opposite rheological property: it is negative thixotropic, or dilatant, allowing the demonstration of "walking on custard". Wikibooks Cookbook...
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    to the amount of force applied, Silly Putty can be characterized as a dilatant fluid. Silly Putty is also a fairly good adhesive. When newspaper ink was...
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    has the opposite rheological property: it is negative thixotropic, or dilatant, which is to say that it becomes more viscous when under pressure. This...
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  • Non-Newtonian fluids can be either plastic, Bingham plastic, pseudoplastic, dilatant, thixotropic, rheopectic, viscoelastic. In some applications, another rough...
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    lubricates the articulating joints[page needed] shock absorption — as a dilatant fluid, that possesses rheopectic properties, becoming more viscous under...
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    studied in the 1880s was the properties of granular materials, including dilatant materials. In 1903 appeared his 250-page book The Sub-Mechanics of the...
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    materials scientists Richard Palmer and Philip Green experimented with a dilatant fluid with non-Newtonian properties. Unlike water, this fluid was free-flowing...
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    =K(T){\dot {\gamma }}^{n-1}} This expression can also be used to describe dilatant (shear thickening) behaviour, where the value of n is greater than 1. Bingham...
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    likely to cause the fluid pressure to rise until it is sufficient to cause dilatant fracturing. Dewatering of sediment that has been underthrust and accreted...
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    homogeneous materials (Examples include: Bingham, viscoplastic, Bagnold-type dilatant fluid, thixotropic, etc.) Dam break wave, e.g. Hunt, Chanson et al. Roll...
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  • increasing with relative deformation), and are called shear-thickening or dilatant materials. Since Sir Isaac Newton originated the concept of viscosity,...
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  • org/PhysScr/T155/014001 Baumert H. Z., Wessling B. (2016). "On turbulence in dilatant dispersions". Physica Scripta 91(7):074003. DOI:10.1088/0031-8949/91/7/074003...
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  • /ˈdɑːnteɪ/   dilettante (1) /ˌdɪlɪˈtænti/ (2) /ˌdɪlɪˈtænteɪ/ (1) /ˈdɪlətɑːnt/ (2) /ˌdɪləˈtɑːnt/ BrE reflects the word's Italian origin; AmE approximates more...
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    Laumonier, Bernard; Blanco, Oscar (1999). "Fluidized hydrothermal breccia in dilatant faults during thrusting: the Colombian emerald deposits". Geological Society...
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  • incorporates features similar to Batman's own batsuit. The main bodysuit uses dilatant-based armor and contains encrypted radio, GPS, and biotelemetry transmitters...
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    interpretation, developing a model in which the aether might, like pine pitch, be dilatant (fluid at slow speeds and rigid at fast speeds). Thus the Earth could move...
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  • DD Pollard, P Segall, PT Delaney, 1982, Formation and interpretation of dilatant echelon cracks, Geological Society of America Bulletin 93 (12), 1291–1303...
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  • non-Newtonian. Shear thickening fluids (or STF), which are the same as dilatants, are one type of non-Newtonian fluid. Magnetorheological fluids (or MRF)...
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  • results in mixing or mass transport without required directed bulk motion. dilatant A substance with the ability to increase in volume when its shape is changed...
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  • numerous substances known as non-Newtonian fluids. Among these are gels, and dilatant fluids, pseudoplastic fluids, liquid crystals. Dedicated experiments have...
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