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Rheology and Rheological Techniques

Paul D.T. Huibers

A selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to papers published in this issue of Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science (August 1999).

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Rheology and Rheological Techniques

'Rheology'
http://chemeng1.kat.lth.se/staff/ulf_b/mp_rheo.htm
This site is an introduction to rheology, covering types of liquids, flow behavior, constitutive equations, viscosity and elasticity measurements, and links to books for further reference.

'The Society of Rheology'
http://www.umecheme.maine.edu/sor/
The home page of the Society of Rheology contains information on their annual meetings, publications, and links to other rheology web resources.  Other societies are listed in the last three web sites of this column.

'The Journal of Rheology - online'
http://ojps.aip.org/journals/doc/JORHD2-home/top.html
This journal has articles starting from January 1996 and abstracts from 1981 available for searching online. Full text of the published articles is available in both PDF and Postscript format.  Other journals are listed in the last three web sites of this column.

'The Extensional Rheology Experiment'
http://stokes.harvard.edu/nonnewtonian/extension/
This web site details NASA sponsored microgravity rheology experiments on polymer solutions, carried out with a filament
stretching rheometer. The site includes movies of several experiments.

'The Rheology Research Center'
http://www.engr.wisc.edu/centers/rrc/
The web site of the RRC at the University of Wisconsin covers aspects of their program on the dynamics of macromolecular liquids.

'Rheologie & Rheometrie (in German)'
http://www.rheologie.de/
This web site by Torsten Mattke at the University of Magdeburg contains links to information on rheological methods, companies, and literature, as well as a glossary, an english-german technical dictionary, links to other sites, and a course on rheology.

'Rheology Links (The Nordic Rheology Society)'
http://livs.sik.se/nrs/reo_link.html
This list of links, provided by the NRS, includes links to other professional societies and organizations, instrument manufacturers, and journals.

'Rheological and (vaguely) associated pages'
http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/chris.petrie/links.html
This list, prepared by Chris Petrie at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, contains a large number of links, including societies/groups, conferences, publications, instrument manufactureres, polymer/plastics organizations, and university departments with programs in rheology.


Posted September 16, 1999 by Paul Huibers, (huibers@mit.edu)