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The shear flow of mayonnaise is generally characterized by an apparent yield stress, shear thinning in steady flow, stress overshoots upon inception of flow and other time-dependent effects. These observations are usually understood to be the result of structural rearrangement within the material. Additionally and separately, the possibility that emulsions may exhibit apparent wall slip on a microscopic scale at a solid-liquid boundary has been reported by some researchers. Thus, observed rheological behavior is likely to be the result of the interplay between these two phenomena.
In the present work, it is demonstrated that when measurements are sought to be made on mayonnaise using rotational viscometers visible wall slip occurs, rendering such instruments ineffective for the purpose of making viscosity measurements even at shear rates as low as 10–3s–1. The factors that influence the onset and extent of slip are investigated with the help of parallel plate viscometers, and it is concluded that the observed “yielding” of mayonnaise is actually an artifact of the onset of macroscopic slip. Slip effects are also found in capillary flow but are ameliorated with increasing shear rate. To circumvent these problems, it is proposed that extensional viscometry be employed for determining the flow behavior of mayonnaises.
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Received: 18 August 1997 Accepted: 1 April 1998
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Plucinski, J., Gupta, R. & Chakrabarti, S. Wall slip of mayonnaises in viscometers. Rheol. Acta 37, 256–269 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003970050113
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003970050113