TY - JOUR
TI - The influence of carbon nanotube addition on the shear-thickening performance of suspensions
AU - Wang Ruining
AU - Zhou Ying Ying
AU - Wang Qiushi
AU - Sun Runjun
AU - Jia Xiaoya
AU - Tian Mingyue
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2023
VL - 27
IS - 3
SP - 1787
EP - 1793
PT - Article
AB - The shear thickening fluid as a protective material has received increasing  attention, and its impact resistance and its rheological properties are  controllable by integrating various kinds of additives to a single phase  shear thickening fluid. In this paper, the rheological properties of shear  thickening fluids with 26 wt.% fume silica, PEG200 and different mass  fraction of multi-walled carbon nano-tubes are investigated, and the effect  of temperature from -5°C to 55°C on steady state rheological properties of  1.0 wt.% multi-walled carbon nanotubes reinforced shear thickening fluids is  studied. Finally a single yarn pull-out test is conducted to examine the  influence of multi-shear thickening fluid on the shear strength and  inter-yarn friction of fabrics. The results show that the addition of  multi-walled carbon nanotubes can improve significantly the viscosity and  shear thickening efficiency.