Dataset
Data Publication
Rheometric Analysis of Viscous Material Mixtures Used in the Tectonic Laboratory (TecLab) at Utrecht University, Netherlands
Rudolf, Michael | Willingshofer, Ernst | Rosenau, Matthias
GFZ Data Services
(2023)
Descriptions
This dataset contains measurements of viscous and viscoelastic materials that are used for analogue modelling. Proper density and viscosity scaling of ductile layers in the crust and lithosphere, requires materials like Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), to be mixed with fillers and low viscoity silicone oils. Changing the filler content and filler material, the density, viscosity and power-law coefficient can be tuned according to the requirements. All materials contain a large amount of PDMS and all but one a small amount of an additional silicone oil. Adding plasticine or barium sulfate lead to shear thinning rheologies with power-law exponents of p<0.95. Adding corundum powder only has a minor effect on the power-law exponent. Some mixtures also have an apparent yield point but all are in the liquid state in the tested range. In general, the rheologies of the materials are very complex and in some cases strongly temperature dependent. However, in the narrow range of relevant strain rates, the behaviour is well defined by a power-law relation and thus found suitable for simulating ductile layers in crust and lithosphere.
Keywords
Originally assigned keywords
analogue models of geologic processes
property data of analogue modelling materials
analogue modelling results
software tools
EPOS
multi-scale laboratories
Barium sulphate
Density
EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES > TECTONIC PROCESSES
Iron Powder
Plasticine
Python
Rheological model
Rheometer
Silicon/Silly putty/PDMS
Stress exponent
Viscosity
Corresponding MSL vocabulary keywords
barium sulphate
iron powder
plasticine
rheometer
rheometer
plastic flow law stress exponent
plastic flow law stress exponent
viscosity
viscosity
MSL enriched keywords
analogue modelling material
granular modelling material
natural granular material
barium sulphate
metalic powders
iron powder
plastic modelling material
synthetic plastic material
plasticine
Apparatus
fluid transport testing
fluid rheology testing
rheometer
Apparatus
characterization of modelling material
rheology testing
rheometer
Measured property
mechanical strength
plastic flow stress
plastic flow law stress exponent
Measured property
mechanical strength
plastic flow strength
plastic flow law stress exponent
viscosity
viscosity
viscous modelling material
synthetic viscous material
silicone
silicone oil
strain
analogue modelling
strain
Earth's structure
lithosphere
measured property
barium
sulphur
sulphate
Metadata
MSL enriched sub domains
rock and melt physics
analogue modelling of geologic processes
geochemistry
Resource Type
Source
Source publisher
| GFZ Data Services |
DOI
| 10.5880/fidgeo.2023.026 |
Creators
| Rudolf, Michael |
| Personal |
| TU Darmstadt, Institute of Applied Geosciences, Engineering Geology, Darmstadt, Germany | GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany |
| Willingshofer, Ernst |
| Personal |
| Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| Rosenau, Matthias |
| Personal |
| GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany |
Contributors
| Rudolf, Michael |
| Personal |
| TU Darmstadt, Institute of Applied Geosciences, Engineering Geology, Darmstadt, Germany | GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany |
| Willingshofer, Ernst |
| Personal |
| Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| Rosenau, Matthias |
| Personal |
| GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany |
| TecLab-Tectonic Modelling Laboratory (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) |
| Personal |
| Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
Citation
Rudolf, M., Willingshofer, E., & Rosenau, M. (2023). Rheometric Analysis of Viscous Material Mixtures Used in the Tectonic Laboratory (TecLab) at Utrecht University, Netherlands [Data set]. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/FIDGEO.2023.026
References
Dates
| Issued | 2023 |
Language
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Rights
| Name | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
| URI | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode |
| Identifier | cc-by-4.0 |
| Identifier Scheme | SPDX |
| Scheme URI | https://spdx.org/licenses/ |
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