The tendency of secretions to stick together.
This is the macro chemical feature of Viscon that makes it an effective fuel additive. Viscoelasticity, synonymous with extensional viscosity, denotes elasticity under stress. A viscoelastic will behave like a liquid when not disturbed. However, when moved though a pipe of sprayed into the air, it behaves like a highly viscous mass.
The ability of a material to simultaneously exhibit viscous and elastic responses to deformation.
(r) a combination of viscous and elastic properties in a material with the relative contribution of each being dependent on time, temperature, stress and strain rate. Viscosity the resistance of a material to flow under stress.
This property, possessed by all plastics to some degree, dictates that while plastics have solid-like characteristics such as elasticity, strength and form-stability, they also have liquid-like characteristics such as flow depending on time, temperature, rate and amount of loading.
The tendency of plastics to respond to stress as if they were a combination of viscous liquids and elastic solids.
a type of deformation exhibiting the mechanical characteristics of viscous flow and elastic deformation.
term used to summarize the complex response of rubber to a deforming force; part of the energy used to accomplish the deformation is stored (elastic response) and part is dissipated (viscous response)
Viscoelasticity, also known as anelasticity, describes materials that exhibit both viscous and elastic characteristics. Viscous materials, like honey, resist shear flow and strain linearly with time when a stress is applied. Elastic materials strain instantaneously when stretched and just as quickly return to their original state once the stress is removed.