{"product_id":"impact-activated-solidification-of-cornstarch-and-scott-r-waitukaitis-9783319359274","title":"Impact-Activated Solidification of Cornstarch and Water Suspensions","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Scott R. Waitukaitis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3319359274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783319359274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.22d","brand":"Scott R. Waitukaitis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47425444872447,"sku":"9783319359274","price":109.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_38ca0387-15f6-46b3-b111-39b7eaecbe60.jpg?v=1761539267","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/impact-activated-solidification-of-cornstarch-and-scott-r-waitukaitis-9783319359274","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}