dilatant

Dilatant behavior occurs when n is greater than 1.

The drum is filled with a dilatant fluid, often silicone-based.

Sand that is completely soaked with water also behaves as a dilatant material.

Dilatant materials have certain industrial uses due to their shear thickening behavior.

The opposite of a dilatant material is a pseudoplastic.

These types of fluids are referred to as "shear thickening" and also "dilatant".

For example, some all wheel drive systems use a viscous coupling unit full of dilatant fluid to provide power transfer between front and rear wheels.

Water borne latex paints are shear thinning, and wet concrete is an example of a dilatant fluid.

While not strictly a dilatant fluid, Silly Putty is an example of a material that shares these viscosity characteristics.

One of the subjects that Reynolds studied in the 1880s was the properties of granular materials, including dilatant materials.

The dilatant fluid would disperse the force of a sudden blow over a wider area of the user's body, reducing the blunt force trauma.

Because its apparent viscosity increases directly with respect to the amount of force applied, Silly Putty can be characterized as a dilatant fluid.

D3O formally "D3o" is a dilatant non-Newtonian fluid commonly used for impact protection.

However, cornstarch in water is actually a dilatant fluid, since it does not show the time-dependent, shear-induced change required in order to be labeled rheopectic.

Two examples of dilatant materials being used in personal protective equipment are d3o, and 'Active Protection System', manufactured by Dow Corning.

Rapid tectonic loading of wet sediment in accretionary wedges is likely to cause the fluid pressure to rise until it is sufficient to cause dilatant fracturing.

In the viscous coupling differentials the shear stress of high shaft speed differences causes a dilatant fluid in the differential to become solid, linking the two shafts.

This system is generally used for on-road vehicles rather than off-road vehicles, since the maximum viscosity of the dilatant fluid limits the amount of torque that can be passed across the coupling.

Just as the opposite behaviour of becoming thinner with time is thixotropism (time dependent pseudoplastic behaviour), rheopectic behaviour may be described as time-dependent dilatant behaviour.

Rheologically based models that apply to mud flows that are treated as a homogeneous liquid (Examples include: Bingham, viscoplastic, Bagnold-type dilatant fluid, thixotropic, etc.)

When the plates start rotating at different speeds, the shear effect of the tabs or perforations on the fluid will cause it to heat and become nearly solid because the viscosity of dilatant fluids rapidly increases with shear.

Ketchup is a shear thinning material, as an increase in relative velocity caused a reduction in viscosity, while some other non-Newtonian materials show the opposite behaviour: viscosity going up with relative deformation, which are called shear thickening or dilatant materials.

Dilatant fracturing will create escape routes, so the fluid pressure is likely to be buffered at the value required for the transition between shear and oblique tensile (dilatant) fracture, which is slightly in excess of the load pressure if the maximum compression is nearly horizontal.