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Effect of titanium diboride on the rheological characteristics of silica-based polyethylene glycol shear thickening fluid

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Journal of Polymer Engineering
From the journal Journal of Polymer Engineering Volume 44 Issue 3

Abstract

The rheological characterization of STFs plays an essential role in understanding the suspension’s stability and the structural changes that occur under the impact of shear forces. This study aims to investigate the rheological behavior of STF after adding titanium diboride (TiB2) as an additive. STF modified with 2 % w/W TiB2 compared to other concentrations (1 %, 1.25 %, and 3 %) showed a maximum rise in viscosity (max), i.e., 18,484 Pa s during steady state rheology, as compared to untreated STF. In dynamic rheology, the same sample demonstrated maximum values of G′ and G″ at a constant frequency of 30 rad/s, G′ and G″ improved by 25 and 11 times, respectively, over unmodified STF. Furthermore, for constant strain amplitudes, the maximum values of G′ and G″ were observed at a strain amplitude of 700 %. G′ and G″ improved by approximately 6.5 and 6 times over unmodified STF, respectively. The findings of the dynamic and steady-state rheological analyses demonstrated that integrating TiB2 into the STF improved the ST behavior.

Keywords: shear thickening fluid; titanium diboride; additive; dispersion; rheology
Corresponding authors: Gursimran Kaur, Department of Physics, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India, E-mail: ; and Sanjeev Kumar Verma, Terminal Ballistic Research Laboratory, Chandigarh 160030, India, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to acknowledge Prof. Rajeev Mehta, Department of Chemical Engineering, TIET Patiala, Kabeer Jasuja, Discipline of Chemical Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, and TBRL, DRDO for providing all research facilities and support to execute this work.

  1. Research ethics: Not applicable.

  2. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  3. Competing interests: The author states no conflict of interest.

  4. Research funding: None declared.

  5. Data availability: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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Supplementary Material

This article contains supplementary material (https://doi.org/10.1515/polyeng-2023-0169).

Received: 2023-07-18
Accepted: 2023-12-14
Published Online: 2024-02-12
Published in Print: 2024-03-25

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Keywords for this article
shear thickening fluid; titanium diboride; additive; dispersion; rheology

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