Development of soft composite materials with improved impact resistance using Kevlar fabric and nano-silica based shear thickening fluid

Shear‐Thickening (“Dilatancy”) in Suspensions of Nonaggregating Solid Particles Dispersed in Newtonian Liquids

Howard A. Barnes · Journal of Rheology · 1989 · 1.2K citations

Engineering, Materials Engineering, Fluid Dynamics +11

The ballistic impact characteristics of Kevlar® woven fabrics impregnated with a colloidal shear thickening fluid

Young S. Lee, Eric D. Wetzel, Norman J. Wagner · Journal of Materials Science · 2003 · 890 citations

Natural Sciences, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +12

Discontinuous and Dilatant Viscosity Behavior in Concentrated Suspensions. I. Observation of a Flow Instability

Richard L. Hoffman · Transactions of the Society of Rheology · 1972 · 773 citations

Engineering, Materials Science, Physics +17

Discontinuous and dilatant viscosity behavior in concentrated suspensions. II. Theory and experimental tests

Richard L. Hoffman · Journal of Colloid and Interface Science · 1974 · 520 citations

Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Fluid Dynamics +13

The effects of particle size on reversible shear thickening of concentrated colloidal dispersions

Brent J. Maranzano, Norman J. Wagner · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 2001 · 387 citations

Engineering, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +17