Study of electrorheological effect

The problem of the effect of an electric field on the shear flow of a suspension of finely dispersed quartz in naphthene with admixtures of a surface-active agent is discussed. The possibility of increasing the apparent viscosity of such rheological systems by four orders of magnitude is shown. Experimental results are given that show that a field creates, besides electroviscosity, viscoelasticity and antithixotropy.