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This book presents a unified view of the physicochemical origin of the mechanical behaviour of gases, simple solids and liquids, suspensions, polymers, emulsions, foams, and granular materials, along with techniques for measuring that behaviour. Besides molecular materials in all their classical gaseous, solid, or liquid states, we deal daily with a number of other materials made of coarser elements such as polymers, cells, grains, bubbles, and droplets. They take on the familiar appearance of paints, inks, cements, muds, foams, emulsions, toothpastes, gels, etc. These materials exhibit complex structures and sometimes amazing types of mechanical behaviour, often intermediate between those of a simple liquid and a simple solid. From a practical standpoint, the aim is to analyze their internal evolution (aging, restructuring, phase separation, etc.), then to formulate these materials in accordance with the desired properties, and thereby devise new materials. With that aim in mind, it is crucial to understand how these materials deform or flow, depending on the interactions and structures formed by the elements they contain. This book is intended for students as well as more advanced researchers in mechanics, physics, chemistry, and biology. The mathematical formalism is reduced in order to focus on physical explanations.
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Soft and Biological Matter
Philippe Coussot
Rheophysics Matter in All Its States
Soft and Biological Matter
Series editors Roberto Piazza, Milan, Italy Peter Schall, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Roland Netz, Berlin, Germany Wenbing Hu, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China Gerard Wong, Los Angeles, USA Patrick Spicer, Sydney, Australia
For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/10783
‘‘Soft and Biological Matter’’ is a series of authoritative books covering established and emergent areas in the realm of soft matter science, including biological systems spanning from the molecular to the mesoscale. It aims to serve a broad interdisciplinary community of students and researchers in physics, chemistry, biophysics and materials science. Pure research monographs in the series as well as those of more pedagogical nature, will emphasize topics in fundamental physics, synthesis and design, characterization and new prospective applications of soft and biological matter systems. The series will encompass experimental, theoretical and computational approaches. Both authored and edited volumes will be considered.
Philippe Coussot
Rheophysics Matter in All Its States
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Philippe Coussot Laboratoire Navier Université Paris-Est Champs-sur-Marne France
Original French edition ‘‘Rhéophysique: La matière dans tous ses états’’ published by EDP Sciences, EDP Sciences 2012. A co-publication with EDP Sciences, 17, av. du Hoggar F-91944 Les Ulis, France ISSN 2213-1736 ISSN 2213-1744 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-06147-4 ISBN 978-3-319-06148-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-06148-1 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014941116 Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the pu