Impact-activated solidification of dense suspensions via dynamic jamming fronts

Scott R. Waitukaitis () and Heinrich M. Jaeger
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Scott R. Waitukaitis: The University of Chicago
Heinrich M. Jaeger: The University of Chicago

Nature, 2012, vol. 487, issue 7406, 205-209

Abstract: A jamming mechanism for the observed phenomenon of the sudden hardening of suspensions of micrometre-sized particles on impact (enough to enable a person to run over them) is described and quantified.

Date: 2012
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