rheometer
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22 sectionsContents
- Meanings and origin
- Types of shear rheometer
- Shearing geometries
- Linear shear
- Pipe or capillary
- Dynamic shear rheometer
- Rotational cylinder
- Cone and plate
- Basic concepts of shear rheometer
- Types of extensional rheometer
- Commercially available extensional rheometers
- Rheotens
- CaBER
- FiSER
- Sentmanat
- Other types of extensional rheometers
- Acoustic rheometer
- Falling plate
- Capillary/contraction flow
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|A rotational rheometer in use in a research laboratory
A rheometer is a laboratory device used to measure the way in which a viscous fluid (a liquid, suspension or slurry) flows in response to applied forces. It is used for those fluids which cannot be defined by a single value of viscosity and therefore require more parameters to be set and measured than is the case for a viscometer. It measures the rheology of the fluid.