This course is held for the 3 rd and 4 th time. This new course is a revised English version of the much appreciated and popular courses 'Basic Rheology' and 'Advanced Rheology'. The courses have been held twice a year in Swedish since 1992 and hundreds of people from the Nordic countries have attended.
Rheology is the science of deformation and flow of materials.
The viscosity of a material describes its resistance to flow while the elasticity is related to its degree of structure. The viscosity and elasticity parameters of a material have mechanical models as analogues. When applying these models on the rheological flow behaviour of different materials their behaviour can be predicted in industrial processes. The measurement results obtained from basic rheological measurements are dependent on parameters like time, temperature and measurement region. The choice of instrumentation and measuring system is also an important factor.