Continue reading »]]> ROMANIAN SOCIETY OF RHEOLOGY

European Social Fund – “CRISTOFOR I. SIMIONESCU” Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme (IDPOSDRU/89/1.5/S/55216), Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development 2007–2013,

“Petru Poni“Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry

ROMANIAN SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY

invite you to participate at Conference :

Dynamics of Complex Fluids

which will take place on 5-7 May 2011, at “Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, 41-A Ghigore Ghica Voda Alley, 700487 Iasi, Romania.

Contact: reologie@icmpp.ro

Organisers:

Contact by mail:
Dr. Simona Morariu
41-A, Grigore Ghica Voda Alley, 700487 Iasi, Room 119
Tel: ++40 232-241012 / 150
Fax: ++40 232-211299
E-mail: reologie@icmpp.ro

All interested colleagues are invited to present and to discuss current results in the field of complex fluids (design and flow properties). Please submit your paper (title, authors, affiliation, a short abstract of maximum 400 words, with the specification of type of presentation) until February 28, 2011 to the conference office.

Continue reading »]]> 1st SRR Summer School of Rheology

Organizers: SRR, Babes-Bolyai University and USAMV Cluj Napoca, in cooperation with GFR and DRG
Place: Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Babes-Bolyai University and University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine
Date: 26 – 29 August, 2010
Contact: Prof. Adina Ghirisan (UBB – Cluj Napoca): ghirisan@chem.ubbcluj.ro; Prof. Corneliu Balan (PU Bucharest): balan@daad-alumni.de

Download document – Table with the potential participants

Continue reading »]]> The first Conference of the Romanian Society of Rheology was a success!

To go to the photo gallery of the event, click here.

Congratulations to the organizers, we are looking forward for the next meetings!

REPORT Workshop CFM 2009 – Bran

Poster Bran

PROGRAM CFM Bran 2009

ORAL PRESENTATIONS CFM Bran 2009

The scientific meeting took place in Bran, Pensiunea Transylvania Inn, Predelut 205B (15-20 minutes by walk from Bran downtown).

Conference

Trip

Continue reading »]]> Rheology is the study of the deformation and flow of materials that are nonclassical and behave in unusual and interesting ways. An example of a classical material would be water; nonclassical materials include peanut butter, rubber, plastic and pastes.

Before 1929
Although rheology was not an official branch of physics until 1929, many scientists and specialists contributed to study of unusual materials before 1929. For example, Archimedes of Syracuse (around 250 BCE) and Isaac Newton (1687) both contributed to the study of ideal materials.

Rheology
In 1929, Eugene Bingham wanted to create a branch of physics that specifically dealt with problems pertaining to unusual liquids and solids. After consulting a language professor, Bingham went with “rheo” taken from Greek, meaning “everything flows” and “-ology” meaning “the study of.”

Modern Rheology
Rheology, after its conception and with the inclusion of new fields such as computational science, has created a branch of physics that overlaps with many other fields, such as thermodynamics and reaction engineering. Rheology also has applications in magneto-rheological fluids and nano-composites.

Resources:
The Industrial Physicist: What Is Rheology Anyway?
“Physics Today” – The Deborah Number; M. Reiner; 1964
The Origins of Rheology: A Short Historical Excursion
College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison: What Is Rheology?
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