NRC 2006

Tentative course and conference programme

Course programme
Monday June 12

12.00 Registration and tea
12.30 Basics of rheology and rheometry
Mikael Hedenqvist, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
13.15 Rheology of dilute suspensions
Theo van de Ven, McGill University, Canada
14.00 Tea time
14.15 Fibre flocculation in flowing fibre suspensions
Theo van de Ven, McGill, Canada
15.00 Wood fibre suspension flow
Geoffrey Duffy, Univ. of Aukland, New Zealand
15.45 Flocculated fibre flow systems
Ulf Björkman, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Conference programme
Tuesday June 13

8.30 Registration
9.00 Welcome & Opening
9.05 B Steenberg, Rheomembrances
9.20 T van de Ven, Interactions between fibers and colloidal particles subjected to flow
10.00 Tea time
10.20 G Duffy, Measurements, mechanisms and models: Some important insights into
the mechanisms of flow of fibre suspensions
11.00 U Björkman, Fibre flow research history. Part I: Background and beginning
11.20 T Ponkkala, Out-of-plane rheological behaviour of paper: the effect of furnish composition, basis weight and drying shrinkage
11.40 J-P Huhtanen, Characterization of non-Newtonian fluid models for wood fiber suspensions
in laminar and turbulent flows
12.00 Lunch
13.00 L Berglund, Rheology of polymer nanocomposites
13.40 M Martinez, Visualization of the flow of a papermaking suspension in an axisymmetric sudden expansion using positron emission tomography
14.00 U Björkman, The metarheology of fibre suspensions
14.20 M Nigam, On fiber flocculation in turbulent pulp flow
14.40 A Carlsson, The wall effect on the orientation of fibers in a shear flow
15.00 Tea time & NRS Annual Business Meeting
16.00 H Hodne, The influence of entrapped air on rheological properties of cement suspensions in early state of hydration
16.20 M Schmidt, Rheological challenges in automotive production
16.40 M Kireitseu, Rheological behavior of CNT-reinforced damping materials
17.00 M Kireitseu, Preliminary results on rheological and damping properties of nanoparticlereinforced materials
17.20 K Al-Malah, Rheological properties of carbomer dispersions
17.20 A Khaldoun, Quicksand

Conference programme
Wednesday June 14

09.00 A-C Albertsson, Rheological aspects of biomedical materials
09.20 J Aho, Determination of the entrance pressure drop in capillary rheometry using
Bagley correction and zero-length capillary
09.40 R Krämer, An approach to assess the rheological behavior relevant to the intumescence
process of polyolefin- chalck-silicone elastomer formulation
10.00 Tea time
10.20 B Stenberg, Rubber technology: Past, present and future
10.40 M Stading, Extensional rheology of cereal protein systems
11.00 A Rabenjafimanantsoa, Simultaneous use of PIV and UVP to measure velocity profiles
and turbulence in jet flow
11.20 S Chen, Rheological properties of waxy oils around wax precipitation temperature (WPT)
11.40 R Schüller, High pressure hydrate detection in a stirred vessel
12.00 Lunch
13.00 N Young, Quantifying tailing in liquid confectionery fillings using texture analysis
and extensional viscosity
13.20 Johan Wiklund, In-line ultrasound based rheometry - A new tool for rheological characterization,
flow visualization and process control
13.40 J Läuger, Rheo small angle light scattering (Rheo-SALS) and rheo-microscopy as tools
for investigations of structure-property relations in complex fluids
14.00 C Salas-Bringas, A calibration method for a new type of rheometer
14.20 P Filip, Back extrusion of Vocadlo (Robertson-Stiff) fluids - semi-analytical solution
15.00 Coffee
15.20 J Nijman, A new hybrid temperature control unit for polymer melts and semi-solids
15.20 B Costello, Use of the Du Nouy ring with a rotational rheometer to measure interfacial
rheological properties
15.40 N Tonmukayakul, A device to measure flow behaviour of settling particle laden suspensions
16.00 F Rashidi, An approximate solution for the Couette-Poiseulle flow of viscoelastic fluid
   

Note that only the name of the presenter is given in the above programme.

Poster session

More contributions will be added.