2026 Short Course | October 18-19, 2026 | Boston, MA
Tribo-rheology
Tribo-rheology: Flow and friction in predicting texture and performance
Instructor: Lilian Hsiao (NCSU) | Co-instructors: James Eickoff (Anton Paar), Keith Coasey (TA)
This 2-day short course:
- combines the fundamental principles of engineering tribo-rheology with experimental demonstration of the characterization tools that will provide meaningful and interpretable data
- is valuable for scientists and engineers who wish to better understand the experimental data from tribo-rheology and to learn how to design the friction coefficient of dry and wet systems in practical conditions
- is directly linked to a Special Invited Session at the SOR Annual Meeting where a group of invited speakers will discuss the principles of tribo-rheology as well as the needs and advances of the field.
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18-19 October 2025, Santa Fe, NM
- Fundamentals of Powder/Granular Rheology and Flow (a one-day short course)
Applied Powder Rheology (a one-day short course)
12-13 October 2024, Austin, Texas
- LAOS Rheology: a start-to-finish guide (a one-day short course): Simon Rogers (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Automated Rheology and Application to Multi-methods Measurements (a one-day short course): Jeffrey Richards (Nortwestern Umiversity) and Thibaut Divoux (CNRS / ENS de Lyon)
8-9 October 2022, Chicago, Illinois
- Introduction to Rheology (a one-day short course): George Petekidis (University of Crete and FORTH) and Norman J. Wagner (University of Delaware)
- Rheology of Colloidal Glasses and Gels (a one-day short course): George Petekidis (University of Crete and FORTH) and Norman J. Wagner (University of Delaware)
- Rheology in Additive Manufacturing (a one-day short course): Jonathan Seppala (NIST) and Leanne Friedrich (NIST)
10 October 2021, Bangor, Maine
- Colloidal Gels: Formation, Structure, and Rheology (a two-day short course): Matthew E. Helgeson (UC Santa Barbara), Roseanna Zia (Stanford University) and Safa Jamali (Northeastern University)
19-20 October 2019, Raleigh, North Carolina
Rheology of Foods (a one-day short course): Peter Fischer (ETH Zürich) and E. Allen Foegeding (North Carolina State University)
Suspension/Granular Rheology (a one-and-a-half-day short course):
Jeffrey Morris (CUNY City College of New York) and Karen Daniels (North Carolina State University)