RHEOMETER MANUFACTURERS AND RELATED EQUIPMENTS

Some information is provided below, regarding commercial sources for viscometers, rheometers, and related equipment. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list; we would most appreciate any contribution to improve it. Please contact us.

    • Anton Paar Gmbh – Produces and distributes the Physica rheometers and viscometers.

    • ATS RheoSystems – Produces rheometers and viscometers, dynamic mechanical thermal analyzers, dynamic shear rheometers, and provides rheological application training and technical service and support.

    • Malvern – Malvern rheology instruments and viscometers: Bohlin stress and strain controlled rheometers, Rosand cappilary rheometers, Bohlin asphalt rheometers and viscometers

    • Freeman Technology – Instrumentation for characterising dry and wet powders, measuring powder flow and powder characteristics.

    • Göttfert – Rheology for the plastics and rubber industry. Manual, semi-automated and robotic laboratory, as well as on-line and at-line rheometers. Capillary rheometers, tensile testers, on-line systems, elastomer testing.

    • TA Instruments – Manufactures thermal analysis (DMA, TGA, DSC) and rheology systems, including the former CarriMed and Rheometrics rheology products.

    • Thermo Scientific – Supplier of the Haake rheology products and polymer testing systems, viscometers, lab scale mixing and extrusion systems.

    • Perten Instruments – Supliers of dough mixers and characterization systems.

NATIONAL RHEOLOGY LABORATORIES

Below you will find links to research groups active in the field of rheology in Portugal.
This list is not exhaustive; if you would like to see your page added please send a short note.

(note that the main research interests refers only to rheology)

 

Rheology Laboratory at FCT-UNL, Caparica

Main research interests: Rheology of complex fluids: polymers and polymer based composites, liquid crystals, biomaterials , cimentitious materials, bitumen. Electro-rheology, rheo-optics.

Contact: Maria Teresa Cidade

Email: mtc@fct.unl.pt

Web site:

http://www.cenimat.fct.unl.pt/people/maria-teresa-varanda-cidade

http://www.cenimat.fct.unl.pt/services/laboratory-rheology



Rheology Laboratory at ISA/UL – Lisbon

Main research interests: Rheology, food texture and biopolymers

Contact: Isabel Sousa

Email: isabelsousa@isa.utl.pt

Web site:

http://ceer.isa.utl.pt/cms/

http://www.isa.utl.pt/files/pub/ensino/cdocente/CV_Isabel_Sousa_Resumido_PT.pdf



Rheology Laboratory at FCT-UC, Coimbra

Main research interests: Rheology of suspensions including fiber suspensions

Contact: Maria da Graça Rasteiro

Email: mgr@eq.uc.pt

Web site:

http://www.uc.pt/fctuc/deq/ciepqpf/people/integrated_phd_researchers/maria_rasteiro

 

Rheology Laboratory at CICECO/UA, Aveiro

Main research interests: Rheology of ceramic materials

Contact: José Maria Ferreira

Email: jmf@ua.pt

Web site:

http://www.ua.pt/demac/PagePerson.aspx?id=335

 

Rheology Laboratory at UBI

Main research interests: Theoretical and Computational rheology

Contact: Paulo Oliveira

Email: pjpo@ubi.pt

Web site:

http://webx.ubi.pt/~pjpo/

 

Rheology Laboratory at FEUP, Porto

Main research interests: Theoretical and Computational rheology

Contact: Fernando Tavares de Pinho

Email: fpinho@fe.up.pt

Web site:

http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~fpinho/

 

Rheology Laboratory at UMinho, Guimarães

Main research interests: Rheology and processing of polymers and polymer based composites. On-line rheology.

Contact: José Covas

Email: jcovas@dep.uminho.pt

Web site:

http://www.dep.uminho.pt/dep/instalacoes-e-equipamentos/laboratorio-de-reologia

http://www.ipc.uminho.pt/index.php?option=com_contentbuilder&title=academic-staff-jos%C3%A9-ant%C3%B3nio-cola%C3%A7o-gomes-covas&controller=details&id=16&record_id=182&Itemid=27&limitstart=0&filter_order=



Rheology Laboratory at SAF/ISEL – Lisbon

Main research interests: Rheology of polymer solutions – anisotropic properties, liquid crystalline fluids, surfactant solutions

Contact: Catarina Rosa Leal

Email: cleal@dem.isel.ipl.pt

Web site:

http://www.fisica.isel.pt/investigacao.html (portuguese only)

 

Rheology Laboratory at Dep. of Chemistry, University of Aveiro

Main research interests: Rheology and Textures of Food

Contact: José António Lopes da Silva

Email: jals@ua.pt

Web site:

http://www.ua.pt/qopna/PageText.aspx?id=17760

INTERNATIONAL RHEOLOGY LABORATORIES

Below you will find links to web sites hosted by rheology laboratories around the world. Any new information to update this list is most welcome!

Center for Fluid Mechanics, Turbulence and Computation, Brown University, USA

http://www.cfm.brown.edu/

 

Food Rheology Laboratory of Prof. Steffe, Michigan University, USA

http://www.egr.msu.edu/~steffe/

 

Food Rheology Laboratory of Dr. Daubert, North Carolina State University, USA

http://www.ncsu.edu/foodscience/rheology/

 

JFB Group, Fluid Mechanics and Stokesian Dynamics, California Institute of Technology, USA

http://www.che.caltech.edu/groups/jfb/index.html

 

Laboratoire de Rheologie, Grenoble, France

http://rheologie.ujf-grenoble.fr/

 

Laboratorio de Reología, Mexico

http://www.esfm.ipn.mx/reologia/index2.html

 

Laboratory of Applied Rheology and Polymer Processing, Department of Chemical Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium (Profs. J. Mewis, P. Moldenaers)

http://cit.kuleuven.be/ltrk/

 

Laboratory of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Prof. John Tsamopoulos, University of Patras, Greece

http://donald.chemeng.upatras.gr/

 

The Molecular Rheology Group at Monash University, Australia

http://users.monash.edu.au/~rprakash/index.html

 

Muller Lab, research in viscoelasticity and rheology, University of California, Berkeley, USA

http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/~sjmgrp/

 

Polymer Fluids Group, University of Cambridge, UK

http://www.cheng.cam.ac.uk/research/groups/polymer/

 

Polymer Rheology Laboratory of Dr. Morrison, Michigan Tech University, USA

http://www.chem.mtu.edu/~fmorriso/cm4655/cm4655.html

 

Rheology Group at the University of the Basque Country, Spain

http://www.sc.ehu.es/powgep99/dcytp/reologia/reologia.html

 

Rheology Lab, National Metal and Materials Technology Center, Thailand

http://www.mtec.or.th/th/labs/rheology/index.html

 

Rheology Research Center, College of Engineering, University of Wiscosin – Madison, USA

http://rrc.engr.wisc.edu/

RHEOLOGICAL SOCIETIES AND GROUPS

Below you will find web sites hosted by national rheological societies and groups of rheology around the world. Hope they are useful!


The European Society of Rheology (ESR)

http://www.rheology-esr.org/


The International Committee on Rheology (ICR)

http://www.icr.tu-berlin.de/dat/home.php


The International Society of Biorheology (ISB)

http://www.coe.ou.edu/isb/index.htm


The Australian Society of Rheology

http://www.rheology.org.au/


The Belgian Group of Rheology

http://cit.kuleuven.be/ltrk/bgr/bgr.html


The British Society of Rheology

http://www.bsr.org.uk


Canadian Society of Rheology

http://www.scr-csr.ca/


Chinese Society of Rheology

http://www.rheology.org.cn


Brazilian Society of Rheology

http://www.sbreologia.com.br


Nederlands Rheologische Vereniging

http://www.mate.tue.nl/nrv/index.html


Groupe Français de Rheologie

http://www.legfr.fr


Deutsche Rheologische Gesellschaft (DRG) e. V.

http://www.drg.bam.de/


Grupo Español de Reología

http://www.reologia.es/


Hellenic Society of Rheology

http://esperia.iesl.forth.gr/~hsr/HSRwebpage.html


Italian Society of Rheology

http://www.sir-reologia.com


Korean Society of Rheology

http://www.rheology.or.kr/


Nordic Rheology Society

http://www.sik.se/nrs/


Polish Society of Engineering Rheology

http://ptrt.p.lodz.pl/


Slovenian Society of Rheology

http://www.fs.uni-lj.si/cem/society_of_rheology.htm


Southern African Society of Rheology (SASOR)

http://www.sasor.co.za/


Swiss Group of Rheology

http://www.ar.ethz.ch/FR/

 

The Society of Rheology, Japan

http://www.srj.or.jp


The Society of Rheology, USA

http://www.rheology.org/sor/


Vinogradov Society of Rheology

http://www.ips.ac.ru/rheo/rheologyeng.htm


Arbeitsgruppe Rheologie Gesellshaft Österreichischer , Austria

http://www.rheology-esr.org


Rheology Group of the Czech Chemical Society

http://www.rheology-esr.org


Indian Society of Rheology

http://www.isr.org.in/


Israel Society of Rheology

http://isor.org.il


Sociedad Mexicana de Reologia

https://www.facebook.com/Sociedadmexicanadereologia


Romanian Society of Rheology

http://reologie.ro