Here n is defined to be 1.414 so that fluid behaves as a shear-thickening fluid.
We found that GG, CGG and FCGG gels behave as a shear thinning pseudoplastic behavior and the flow behavior of gels can be described by Ostwald-Dewael model.
As it is shown in Eq. 1, by setting suitable calibration parameters, it is possible to make the polymeric fluid behave as a shear-thickening fluid (Mullineux 2008).
Our results demonstrate that native sericin behaves as a viscoelastic shear thinning fluid, but that it does so at a considerably lower viscosity than its partner fibroin, and that its upper critical shear rate (onset of gelation) lies above that of fibroin.
Such fluctuation occurs because the borehole wall behaves as a free surface, and shear stress parallel to the wall does not propagate (Zoback 2007).
At low shear stress, digested sludge behaves as a linear viscoelastic solid, but shear banding can occur and modify the apparent behaviour.
Accordingly, the system is designed to control the formation of diagonal struts in the infill walls and behaves as a lattice brace instead of a shear wall.
From the rheological behaviour analysis, it is determined that emulsions have a very interesting rheological behaviour, where the emulsions exhibit a shear-thinning behaviour, at shear rates below 200 s−1 (for 5 30% WC) and 350 s−1 (for 35 90% WC) and behaves as a Newtonian fluid beyond the respective shear rates.
One of the principal stress axes around the shear zone is oriented normal to it (Matsumoto et al. 2015), suggesting the shear zone behaves as a weak fault.
The reference model is fully fixed in the foundation to behave as a conventional shear wall, while the proposed models are not fixed to the base to provide the desired rocking mechanism in SC-RRCSWs.
