For centuries, doctors have used their hands as essential diagnostic tools - exploring joints and palpating abdomens to assess a patient's health. Often a cancer will reveal itself as a lump or ...

The study of nonlinear elasticity and viscoelasticity occupies a pivotal role in continuum mechanics, providing essential frameworks to describe materials undergoing large deformations and ...

Fundamental aspects of polymer rheology, including the theory of linear viscoelasticity, measurement of fundamental flow properties, constitutive equations, the kinetic- molecular theories of ...

A project led by Spain's ICFO research center has developed a novel optical tweezer arrangement able to assess the viscoelastic properties of biological materials. Quantifying the mechanical responses ...

Most automotive multigrade oils contain high molecular weight polymeric viscosity index improvers (VIIs) and are to a greater or lesser extent, viscoelastic liquids. A way of characterising lubricant ...