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Determining the true slip of a yield stress material with a sliding plate rheometer

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Within this paper we demonstrate the capability of the sliding plate configuration of the flexure-based microgap rheometer (FMR) to absolutely determine slip velocities of a yield stress fluid. The sensitivity of the compound flexures of the FMR in combination with the possibility to achieve precise gap settings down to 1 μm allows to accurately determining slip velocities down to 1 μm/s. We further show how the obtained non-linear relation of the slip velocity to the constant stresses of the plane Couette flow in the sliding plate configuration of the FMR allows predicting and explaining the inhomogeneous stress distribution and partial yielding behaviour in a rotational cone-and-plate geometry.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support from the research foundation Flanders (FWO) (project G.0543.10) and the Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds K.U. Leuven (GOA 09/002). Furthermore. they would like to thank G.H. McKinley and P. Erni for fruitful discussions.

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The slip velocity and bulk shear rate are determined following the Mooney analysis by plotting for a constant stress the different shear rates that were observed in Fig. 2 at different gaps as function of the inverse gap. Following Eq. 1, the linear extrapolation of such a series of constant stress gives the bulk shear rate as the y-axis intersect and the slip velocity as the slope of the interpolated curve.

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Clasen, C. Determining the true slip of a yield stress material with a sliding plate rheometer. Rheol Acta 51, 883–890 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00397-012-0647-5

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