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Simulations of the structure and rheology of wet webs

2009

In this Thesis we modified a recently introduced model for fiber suspensions to be applicable to wet fiber networks so as to analyze by computer simulations their structural and rheological properties. These properties were compared, under tensile loading in particular, to those of wet and dry paper. The model used operated at the fiber level, where the dynamics of fiber motion were determined by fiber stiffness and fiber-fiber interactions such as friction and adhesive forces. Water surface tension, inter-fiber contact area, and moisture content all contributed to the latter force. The tensile strength of wet fiber networks could be described in terms of a very simple function of adhesion-…