%0 Journal Article
%T RHEOLOGY AND SCALING BEHAVIOR OF SWELLING CLAY DISPERSIONS
%A S. CHAOUI
%A A. Mehamha
%A N. H. Belkham
%A D. Benachour
%J Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences
%D 2012
%I El Oued University
%X The microstructure and scaling of rheological properties of colloidal gels of bentonite investigated as a function of volume fraction and strength of interparticle interaction over a range of volume fractions, elastic modulus is well described with a scaling law functions of volume fractions, while the role of interparticle attractions can be accounted for by expressing these rheological properties as ( / g-1)n, where  g captures the strength of particle interaction and n the microstructure.The scaling variable ( p/ pc-1), suggested in percolation theory to describe rheological behavior near percolation transition, acts to collapse GĄ¯ data suggesting that along lines of constant ( / g-1) these gels are rheologically identical.
%K rheology
%K scaling behavior
%K clay
%U http://jfas.info/index.php/JFAS/article/view/88/pdf