eprintid: 134
rev_number: 4
eprint_status: archive
userid: 5
dir: disk0/00/00/01/34
datestamp: 2008-05-20
lastmod: 2015-05-29 19:47:59
status_changed: 2009-04-08 16:54:41
type: report
metadata_visibility: show
item_issues_count: 0
creators_name: Chiu-Webster, Sunny
creators_name: Dyson, Rosemary
creators_name: Parker, David
creators_name: Vella, Dominic
creators_name: Whittaker, Robert
contributors_name: Lian, Guoping
contributors_name: Allwright, David
contributors_name: Band, Leah
contributors_name: Blount, Maurice
contributors_name: Cummings, Linda
contributors_name: Griffiths, Ian
contributors_name: Jensen, Oliver
contributors_name: King, John
contributors_name: Oliver, James
contributors_name: Reboux, Sylvain
contributors_name: Taroni, Michele
contributors_name: Zyskin, Maxim
title: The pull-off test for viscoelastic soft solids
ispublished: pub
subjects: food
subjects: medicine
studygroups: esgi59
companyname: Unilever
full_text_status: public
problem_statement: An Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) can be used to plot force against
separation when a sphere is pushed into a viscoelastic mucus layer on a soft
plane substrate and then retracted. Unilever wish to have a mathematical
model of the process that could be used to determine the viscoelastic
properties of the mucus from the measurements. The Study Group developed
such a model and showed that it could provide force-separation curves
with the same qualitative features as those obtained by Unilever in their
experiments.
date: 2008-01-28
date_type: published
pages: 24
citation:   Chiu-Webster, Sunny and Dyson, Rosemary and Parker, David and Vella, Dominic and Whittaker, Robert  (2008) The pull-off test for viscoelastic soft solids.  [Study Group Report]     
document_url: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/134/1/pulloff.pdf