The subject of this diploma thesis is a study of the influence of cellulose ethers on the rheological properties of lime. The theoretical part focuses on rheological parameters, techniques and test equipment used in rheology measurements. Various types of cellulose ethers and their influence on the rheological properties of fresh mortars are described. The practical part deals with the study of the influence of different types and quantities of cellulose ethers on the properties of fresh lime pastes and mortars. The results were obtained from measurements on a rotational rheometer with a special geometry for building materials. Measuring methods used were flow and oscillatory tests. Yield stress, viscosity and flow index were determined by the flow measurement. The stability and stiffness of fresh materials were determined during the oscillation measurements. The measured results are then evaluated and compared.

This diploma thesis is focused on the study of the influence of the of size cosmetics pigments on the properties of the final product. This effect was studied on samples of make-up given by industry partner. Make-up samples were measured by the rheology method and the yield stress of all samples was determined. Scanning electron microscopy was used to determine the size and shape of the pigment particles. Particle size was also measured by dynamic light scattering, but the results were influenced by forming aggregates. To easier determination of the types of pigments in the sample was determined elemental composition of the pigments (Ti, Fe, O, Al) by EDS detector. Due to the unknown composition of make-up, the information was supplemented by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) analysis, and it was possible to determine the compounds TiO2 (anatase and rutile), FeOOH and Fe2O3. The results obtained by these methods showed what pigments can be found in make-up samples, what their sizes and shapes are. It has been shown that the smaller the pigments are, the higher the viscosity and yield stress of the final product. The higher these quantities, the harder it is to handle the product.

[pt] Esta tese é sobre a reologia de óleos parafínicos crus. Um protocolo baseado na literatura relevante é desenvolvido para garantir que históricos térmico e de cisalhamento bem definidos sejam impostos em amostras que serão submetidas à medições reológicas. Com este protocolo, uma caracterização reológica quase completa de um óleo parafínico cru brasileiro é executada . Quatro experimentos reométricos são realizados, a saber, escoamento em estado estacionário, taxa de cisalhamento constante, tensão constante e rampa oscilatória de amplitude de tensão. Propriedades reológicas importantes, tais como, viscosidade, tensão limite de escoamento e módulos elástico e viscoso são medidos com o auxílio de técnicas diferentes em uma ampla faixa de condições. Além disso, uma comparação entre essas técnicas de medição é realizada. O processo de quebra da microestrutura do óleo parafínico brasileiro, assim como os efeitos na reologia do histórico do material e do tempo de repouso isotérmico são estudados. Fenômenos interessantes são observados, incluindo bifurcação da taxa de cisalhamento, dependência da tensão limite com os históricos térmico e de cisalhamento e independência dos resultados de regime permanente com relação à condição inicial após o resfriamento. Por fim, oportunidades para futuros desenvolvimentos e investigações são enfatizadas. / [en] This thesis deals with the rheology of waxy crude oils. A protocol based on the relevant literature is developed to guarantee well defined shear and thermal histories to waxy crude oil samples to be submitted to rheological measurements. With this protocol, a fair complete rheological characterization of a Brazilian waxy crude oil is performed. Four rheometric experiments, namely steady-state flow, constant shear rate, constant shear stress, and dynamic-stress-amplitude sweep are carried out. Important rheological properties, such as, viscosity, yield stress, and storage and loss moduli are measured with di↵erent techniques in a wide range of conditions and a comparison between the techniques is presented. The yielding as well as the history effects and the e↵ects of isothermal holding time on the microstructure and rheology of a Brazilian waxy crude oil are investigated. Interesting phenomena are observed, including bifurcation of shear rate, dependence of the yield stress with thermal and shear histories, and independence of the steady-state results with the post-cooling initial condition of the experiment. At last, opportunities for further developments are highlighted.

Current requirements in mechanical engineering require more accurate operations and more efficient technologies. The aim of this thesis is the analysis of the leveling of square rods. The main problem is the setting of the leveling machine for the specified material and geometric data so that the initially curved material, which passes through alternatively positioned offset rollers, is leveled as much as possible. The main factor in the leveling process is the plastification of the material used for the redistribution of the residual stress. Based on existing theo-retical knowledge in this field, programs are set up to simulate the passing of the rod through the leveling machine. Further, modifications leading to the improvement of the whole process are presented. Finally, there is a verification of the results which is made independently of the submitted solution and processed by the finite element method.

The use of recycled concrete aggregates (RCA) has gained increased attention in the past few decades as an alternative to decrease the carbon footprint of concrete construction. Yet, most of the research performed so far demonstrates that RCA concrete displays inferior performance in the fresh and hardened states when compared to conventional concrete (CC). The latter is believed due to the fact that very often the different microstructure of RCA is not accounted for while the mix-proportioning of RCA concrete. Recently, a number of mix-design procedures accounting for RCA microstructure have been proposed. Amongst them, the Equivalent Volume (EV) method seems to be quite promising. The EV method may proportion RCA concrete made of coarse (CRCA) or fine (FRCA) RCA and is based on a companion CC. Previous research has demonstrated that the fresh and hardened properties of EV mix-designed CRCA are suitable for structural applications. Yet, very few research, analysis and quantification have been conducted on the fresh behaviour of EV mix- proportioned FRCA concrete. This work presents a comprehensive study on the rheological behaviour of EV mix-designed CRCA and FRCA concrete presenting distinct features (i.e. inner qualities, mineralogy, fabrication process, etc.) through the use of a planetary rheometer (IBB). Results show that the EV is capable of proportioning low embodied energy CRCA and FRCA concrete with shear thinning profiles. The latter suggests that these mixtures are suitable for applications under high torque regimes such as vibrated or pumped concrete.

In dieser Dissertation wird das viskoplastische Schubverhalten eines magnetorheologischen Fluids (MRF) modelliert. Mithilfe eines phänomenologischen Modellierungsansatzes auf Basis nichtlinearer rheologischer Elemente können die gemessenen Fließkurven sowie Speicher- und Verlustmoduli abgebildet werden. Ein MRF ist ein Material mit fest-flüssig Übergang. Es besitzt von einem Magnetfeld abhängige Materialeigenschaften. Um diese beschreiben zu können, wird zunächst eine phänomenologische Stoffklassifizierung eingeführt. Auf deren Grundlage teilen sich Stoffe allgemein in Flüssigkeiten, Festkörper und Materialien mit fest-flüssig Übergang auf. Zur Beschreibung des Materialverhaltens von MRF werden drei viskoplastische Modelle formuliert und gegenübergestellt. Zur Identifikation der Materialparameter wird eine Identifikationsstrategie auf der Grundlage charakteristischer Punkte entwickelt. Charakteristische Punkte sind exklusive Punkte von Materialfunktionen, die analytisch beschrieben und ohne Weiteres experimentell ermittelt werden können. Analytische Ausdrücke für charakteristische Punkte der Speicher- und Verlustmoduli werden über das Analogieprinzip unter Verwendung von Lissajous Diagrammen abgeleitet. Infolgedessen können die Materialparameter durch das Auswerten algebraischer Zusammenhänge identifiziert werden, ohne nichtlineare Optimierungsverfahren anwenden zu müssen. Hierbei stellt die Fließspannung einen signifikanten Materialparameter dar. Deswegen werden die Standardverfahren zur Bestimmung der Fließspannung auf rheologische Modelle angewendet und bewertet.

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Ette thèse traite d’écoulements de fluides à seuil (ou viscoplastiques) en milieu confiné. Les difficultés analytiques et numériques sont dues à la multivaluation du tenseur des contraintes dans les zones plastiques ainsi qu’à la non-différentiabilité du problème de minimisation associé. Cette thèse s’articule en deux parties.Dans un premier temps, des simulations numériques parallèles très précises à l’aide d’algorithmes de dualité ont été effectuées. Elles ont permis de retrouver des résultats observés expérimentalement dont l’existence d’une ligne de glissement pour l’écoulement au dessus d’un obstacle et le caractère quasi-Poiseuille de la vitesse au-delà de cette ligne. Par ailleurs, la théorie de couche limite viscoplastique définie par Oldroyd (1947, à nombre de Bingham asymptotiquement grand) a été revisitée à nombre de Bingham modéré en milieu confiné. L’étude a mis en œuvre des allers-retours entre ces simulations et les expériences physiques de Luu et al. d’IRSTEA ainsi qu’une dérivation théorique. L’approximation de couche limite est vérifiée dans une certaine mesure à l’intérieur de la cavité. Une adaptation de la notion de couche limite viscoplastique est alors exhibée et permet d’étendre les scalings dérivés par Oldroyd (1947) et Balmforth et al. (J. of Fluid Mech, 2017). Ces scalings sont aussi généralisés au cas de la loi d’Herschel-Bulkley. Dans un second temps, on présente une analyse asymptotique des champs de vitesses et de contraintes pour des écoulements en faible épaisseur (ε). Un développement à l’ordre ε2 de la vitesse permet de trouver une équation de Reynolds à la même précision. Cette équation de Reynolds prolonge les résultats déjà existants dans le cadre newtonien, d’une part et dans le cadre fluide à seuil avec une surface libre, d’autre part. / This thesis is devoted to the flow of yield stress (or viscoplastic) fluids in pipes.Analytical and numerical difficulties lie in the multivaluation of the stress tensor in the plastic regions and in the non-differentiability of the associated minimization problem. This manuscript is organized following two main axes.First, very accurate numerical simulations were carried out using duality methods and parallel multifrontal solvers. Thus, experimental observations were recovered, namely the existence of a slip line for the flow over an obstacle and the Poiseuille-like behaviour of the velocity above this line. Moreover, the viscoplastic boundary layer theory defined by Oldroyd (1947 at high Bingham numbers) was revisited at moderate Bingham numbers in confined areas. This study provided an opportunity to go back and forth between these simulations and the physical measures of Luu et al. from IRSTEA and to perform a theoretical derivation. The boundary layer approximation is valid up to a certain extent in the cavity. An adaptation of the viscoplastic boundary layer definition is then given and allows to generalize the scalings shown by Oldroyd (1947) and Balmforth et al. (JFM 2017). These scalings are also generalized to the Herschel-Bulkley case. Then, an asymptotic analysis of the velocity and stress fields for thin layer (ε) flows is presented. A velocity development up to ε2 lets us find a Reynolds equation of same accuracy. This Reynolds equation extends the already existing results, on the one hand in the newtonian case and on the second hand for free surface flows.

Nous présentons une contribution autour de la modélisation des écoulements viscoplastiques. En vue d'applications réalistes telle que la simulation numérique des coulées de lave volcanique, le travail se concentre particulièrement sur les fluides complexes dont la rhéologie dépend fortement de grandeurs physiques telle que la température ou la concentration en particule. Nous développons un nouvel algorithme de résolution numérique des équations de Herschel-Bulkley combinant une méthode de Lagrangien augmenté à paramètre d'augmentation variable, une méthode des caractéristiques d'ordre 2 et une adaptation de maillage automatique. Sur des problèmes stationnaires ou en évolution tel que le problème test de la cavité entraînée, il apporte une solution efficace pour garantir à la fois une précision numérique élevée et un temps de calcul raisonnable. Cet algorithme est ensuite étendue et adapté au cas des rhéologies non-isothermes et aux suspensions. Concernant la simulation numérique des coulées de lave volcanique, nous détaillons une méthode de réduction par analyse asymptotique des équations de Herschel-Bulkley pour des écoulements de faible épaisseur sur une topographie arbitraire. Elle permet alors de décrire ces écoulements tridimensionnels de fluides viscoplastiques à surface libre par des équations bidimensionnelles surfaciques. Cette approche est ensuite étendue au cas non-isotherme en y ajoutant l'équation de la chaleur et des dépendances thermiques sur la rhéologie. Par intégration verticale de l'équation de la chaleur, on retrouve un modèle bidimensionnel. Le modèle non-isotherme est validé sur une expérience de dôme réalisée en laboratoire et une simulation numérique est réalisée autour d'une coulée qui a eu lieu sur le volcan du Piton de la Fournaise à la Réunion, en décembre 2010. La comparaison donne des résultats qui sont de notre point de vue satisfaisants et encourageants. / We present a contribution about modeling of viscoplastic flows. For realistic applications such as numerical simulation of volcanic lava flows, the work focuses particularly on complex fluids whose rheology strongly depends on physical quantities such as temperature or the particle concentration. We develop a new numerical resolution algorithm of Herschel-Bulkley's equations combining an augmented Lagrangian method with variable augmentation parameter, a second order characteristic method and an auto-adaptive mesh procedure. On stationary or evolving problems as the lid-driven cavity flow benchmark, it provides an effective solution to ensure both a high numerical accuracy within a reasonable computing time. This algorithm is then extended and adapted to the case of non-isothermal rheological and suspensions. On the numerical simulation of volcanic lava flows, we describe a method of reducing by asymptotic analysis of the Herschel-Bulkley's equations for thin flows on arbitrary topography. It allows to describe the three-dimensional flows of viscoplastic fluid with free surface by bidimensional surface equations. This approach is then extended to the non-isothermal case by adding the heat equation and thermal dependencies on rheology. By vertical integration of the heat equation, a two-dimensional model is maintained . The non-isothermal model is validated on a laboratory experiment of dome and a numerical simulation is performed on a December 2010 Piton de la Fournaise lava flow from La Réunion island. In our view, the comparison gives satisfactory and encouraging results.