Has many links andinformation resources to journals and other reheolotical information. Texture Technologies Corp is the site with information regarding the TA.XT2 Texture Analyzer. It is a very rough draft. This seems to work towards getting something started. This might be articles, commercial catalogs, ideas, images, etc.
Rheology is the study of the science of deformation of matter.
However irregardless of the reason for study texture, it is difficult to classify and sharply understand because of the enormous range of materials and food materials behave differently under different conditions. Part of the problem is that to study the texture of foods one needs to have reference or standard materials. If one really wanted to understand texture and the relationships of stress-strain and deformation, they should deal with representative models. Texture testing in foods is based upon the action of stress and strain. Many of the methods are based upon compression, shearing, shear-pressure, cutting or tensile strength.