Improvement Of A Beam-bending Viscosimeter For Fast Measurement

The beam-bending method is very useful for the viscosity determination of glasses, but the time spent to run the measurement is usually very long. The present note describes the performance of an improved beam-bending viscosimeter at the support stand and loading rod to get the faster measurements of high viscosity glasses with better reliability and precision. The testing time was reduced from 8 to less than 4 hours to run one measurement at three different temperatures (1100, 1200, and 1300°C), with the precision of almost one order of magnitude better (±0.01 for 1g η in poise).6593028302

Equation of State for Parallel Rigid Spherocylinders

The pair distribution function of monodisperse rigid spherocylinders is calculated by Shinomoto's method, which was originally proposed for hard spheres. The equation of state is derived by two different routes: Shinomoto's original route, in which a hard wall is introduced to estimate the pressure exerted on it, and the virial route. The pressure from Shinomoto's original route is valid only when the length-to-width ratio is less than or equal to 0.25 (i.e., when the spherocylinders are nearly spherical). The virial equation of state is shown to agree very well with the results of numerical simulations of spherocylinders with length-to-width ratio greater than or equal to 2

Influence of Homeotropic Anchoring Walls upon Nematic and Smectic Phases

McMillan liquid crystal model sandwiched between strong homeotropic anchoring walls is studied. Phase transitions between isotropic, nematic, and smectic A phases are investigated for wide ranges of an interaction parameter and of the system thickness. It is confirmed that the anchoring walls induce an increase in transition temperatures, dissappearance of phase transitions, and an appearance of non-spontaneous nematic phase. The similarity between influence of anchoring walls and that of external fields is discussed.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figure