Rheology equipment

Rheology equipment

We have temperature-controlled equipment for the detailed characterisation of materials covering a wide range of properties, in rheometry, whether continuous (viscosimetry), transient, dynamic or harmonic (viscoelasticity) or in texturometry.

Temperature-controlled rheometers

  • Imposed strain rheometer: ARES (TA Instruments)
  • Imposed stress rheometers: AR 2000 (TA Instruments), MCR 92 (Anton Paar)
  • Dual motor rheometer, allowing control of strain and stress: MCR 702 TwinDrive (Anton Paar)
Rhéomètres

The respective characteristics of the different rheometers are compared in the table below:

 CoupleMinimun angular displacementShear speedFrequency
MCR g21 à 125 µNm1 µrad10-4 à 157 rad/s10-4 à 628 rad/s
ARES0.2 à 100 µNm5 µrad2.10-6 à 200 rad/s10-5 à 200 rad/s
AR 20000.1 à 200 µNm40 µrad10-4 à 300 rad/s7.5.10-7 à 628 rad/s
MCR 70210-3 à 203 µNm50 µrad10-9 à 314 rad/s10-7 à 102 rad/s

Viscometers

  • Low-Shear 400 (Lamy)
  • Rapid Visco Analyser RVA (Perten)
Viscosimètres

Texturometer

  • Zwick Line Z0.5 TN 
Texturomètre