rheological
- adjective
- /ˌriːəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
- Specialized
- The present study was conducted using Farinograph-E as a major tool to measure the rheological properties of Mozzarella cheese.
- rheological properties
- rheological fluids
- magneto-rheological
Examples
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Piezoelectric crystals and magneto-rheological fluid have been around for years.
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Determination of the rheological properties of dough and dough-like food materials from the Farinograph is easy, while the study of cheese characteristics is very difficult and complicated.
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From a rheological point of view, GFA can be related to viscosity.
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Foods are often physically complex fluids and soft solids, with rheological and material properties that are time- and process-dependent, and which have a natural variation.
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Under normal conditions, magneto-rheological fluids are free-flowing with a viscosity akin to motor oil.
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With the emergence of self-consolidating concrete in the last 20 years, Ferraris initiated and led a research program at NIST on the application of rheological principles.
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Although the thermodynamic and rheological properties are often treated separately, they are in fact connected, as exemplified by the Adams-Gibbs relationship, ? = AexpB/TSC(T).
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Lord's magneto-rheological fluids are suspensions of micron-sized iron particles in a carrier fluid, which is often some kind of oil.
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Sixty years ago, Meyer et al. discovered that the rheological properties of synovial fluid are based on interactions between hyaluronan molecules (Balazs & Denlinger, 1993).
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Researchers analyze the rheological properties of different materials to understand their flow behaviors under stress.
Synonyms
Relating to how a material flows or changes shape
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word rheological comes from the Greek root rheo- meaning 'to flow' and the ending -logy meaning 'study'. So, rheological is about how materials 'flow' or change shape when you push or heat them.