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Materialsthatexhibitthixotropywillshowasteadilydecreasingmeasuredviscosityover
time.Materialsthatexhibitpseudoplasticitywillshowachangingviscosityasthespindle
speedchanges.
TIP: Whenaveragingdataforathixotropicmaterial,begintheAveragingDurationafter
theperiodofmostsignicantchangeinmeasuredviscosity.Thiswillreducethe
variabilityintheaveragedvalue.
TIP: Whenaveragingdataforapseudoplasticmaterial,donotaveragetogether(Test
Averaging)datacollectedatdifferentspeeds(orshearrates).
Live Averaging of data occurs during actual testing of a sample. Data can be collected
asanaverageofreadingsoveraspecictimeinterval;eachdatapointsavedintheleis
anaveragedvalue.ThisaveragingisdenedintheDataCollectionsectionofCongure
ViscosityTest.
Single Point AveragingrequiresadenitionofAveragingDuration,theamountoftime
forwhichreadingswillbeaveraged.Thistimeparameterwillbeappliedattheendof
theEndCondition.Inthiscaseasingledatapointwillbecollectedwhichrepresents
theaverageofalldatameasuredduringthespeciedtimeperiod(AveragingDuration).
Multi Point Averagingrequiresadenitionof1)DataInterval,thefrequencyofdata
collectionand2)AveragingDuration,theamountoftimeforwhichreadingswillbe
averaged.Thesetwoparameterswillworkinconjunctiontogeneratemultipledata
pointseachofwhichrepresenttheaverageofalldatameasuredduringtheaverage
durationwithinthespeciedDataInterval.
PostTestAveragingofdataoccursafterthetestiscomplete,throughtheResultsscreen.
Averages and standard deviation values can be generated for data collected in a single
steporacrossseveralstepsofatestgeneratedthroughPGFlashsoftware.Ifthetest
usedtocollectdatautilizedLiveAveraging(describedabove),thenthePostTestAveraging
will produce an average value of averaged data points.
PostTestAveragingcanbespeciedintheReportsectionofCongureViscosityTest(see
SectionIII.7).Whenconguredaspartofthetest,theaveragevalueswillbedisplayed
immediatelyupontestconclusion.IfnotspeciedinReport,PostTestAveragingcan
beselectedfromtheDownArrowintheResultsscreen(seeSectionIII.9).
PostTestAveragingofferstwooptions:StepAveragingandTestAveraging(seeFigure
III-13).
Figure III-13
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