Fundamental Applied Rheology

Course Overview

Domain

Engineering

Format

Short Course

Duration

2 days

Fee Subsidy

Up to 90% SF Funding

The application of rheological concepts in materials is increasingly important as industries and researchers alike seek to understand their products more deeply. By doing so, they are able to develop more effective and efficient products and processes.

Rheology is typically applied to:

Determine material functionality in product development
Determine product performance
Analyse microstructures
Evaluate texture by correlation to sensory data
Assess intermediate or final product quality control
Conduct shelf-life testing
Perform process engineering calculations involving equipment such as pumps, pipelines, extruders, rollers

This course will equip participants with the basic competencies:

To identify rheological properties of materials
To identify the test methods and geometries of the rheometer
To describe various rheological behaviour using common constitutive models
To recognise how rheology can be applied in product development and testing

A combination of theory, case studies and hands-on activities will enable participants to better apply the fundamentals of rheology to their daily applications.

Who Should Attend

Rheology is a characterisation tool that relates to products that are liquid, paste and soft solids and is therefore applicable across all industries. Nonetheless, typical ITMs that are involved in the development and production of these materials, particularly food manufacturing, energy & chemicals and healthcare, would be relevant.

This course will be suitable for practitioners who have started or intend to use rheometers in the following fields:

QA/QC
Research
Product development
Sales and marketing of technical products

What You Will Learn

Part I: Terminologies and basic concepts:

Define concepts of stress, strain and strain rate (time)
Define concepts of solid, semi-solid and liquid
Identify the main equipment used to measure rheological properties of solid and fluid
Identify stress-strain and stress-strain rate relationships for different materials, including an understanding of the terms of elastic modulus, yield stress, strain hardening, breaking stress and strain, viscosity, shear thinning and shear thickening, storage and loss moduli, tan d

Part II: Rheometer – test geometries and test methods

Basic workings of a rheometer
Common geometries used
Rotational flow tests and related constitutive models
Fitting of data to constitutive models using a spreadsheet
Oscillatory tests and viscoelastic properties
Additional test methods

Part III: Case studies
Part IV: Test demonstration

Teaching Team

Aaron Goh

Associate Professor, Engineering, Singapore Institute of Technology

Kelvin Goh

Associate Professor, Massey University, New Zealand

Wang Danping

Lead Professional Officer, Singapore Institute of Technology

Schedule

Day 1

Time	Activity (mode of training)
9:00 am - 6:00 pm	Lecture and activities (Classroom)

Day 2

Time	Activity (Mode of Training)
9:00 am - 1:00 pm	Lecture and activities (Classroom)
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Practical (Lab)
5:00 pm - 6:00pm	Assessment (Classroom)

Certificate and Assessment

A Certificate of Participation will be issued to participants who:

Attend 75% of the course
Undertake and pass non-credit bearing assessment during the course

Fee Structure

The full fee for this course is S$1,744.00.

Category	After SF Funding
Singapore Citizen (Below 40)	S$523.20
Singapore Citizen (40 & Above)	S$203.20
Singapore PR / LTVP+ Holder	S$523.20
Non-Singapore Citizen	S$1,744.00 (No Funding)