Characterizing viscoelastic properties of synthetic and natural fibers and their coatings with a torsional pendulum

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Keshavarz, Bavand; Zarket, Brady; Amin, Samiul; Rughani, Ronak; Muthukrishnan, Sivaramakrishnan; ... Show more
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Abstract
<p>Free oscillations of synthetic and natural fibers in a torsional pendulum setup enable us to characterize the viscoelastic properties of soft fibers and their bulk viscoelastic coatings in a quantitative manner.</p>
Date issued
2021
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133365
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering; MIT Energy Initiative
Journal
Soft Matter
Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
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