Project description
Material testing inspired by animal sounds
Complex fluids, a family of multiphase fluids, are ubiquitous across a wide array of industrial products including cement, food, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. Characterising their strength and elasticity when subject to an applied force is often not simple as their properties can vary widely. Cataloguing the whole range of material properties is time consuming. EU funding of the OrthoChirp project will enable researchers to improve characterisation of soft material properties. The focus will be on combining the optimally windowed chirp, a technique inspired by the sound sequences of certain animals with superposition flows in rheology. These techniques will be used to test the properties of gelling polymers, proteins, colloidal gels or any other ‘mutating’ soft materials.
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MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF
Coordinator
3000 Leuven
Belgium
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