The rheological properties of polyelectrolyte cements. I. polycarboxylates

The rheological behaviour of six setting carboxylate cements was studied by capillary techniques in the shear rate of 0.65-65 s-1 and the cements were found to behave as power law fluids. All cements became dilatant as setting progressed and the kinetics of apparent viscosity increase, were found to follow an exponential function of time, exp (mt), with m congruent to 0.5.