• The Korean Journal of Ceramics
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.104-109
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• 1999

Rheological properties of dense slurries over 45 volume % with different monosaccharides and disaccharides were checked in order to increase the solid content of dense slurries without sacrificing plasticity using creep testing method. Strain in creep test showed good correlations with Burger model which is expressed as an exponential function of time. Among several monosaccharides and disaccharides studied here, fructose and sucrose were most effective in making dense alumina slurry plastic than other monosaccharides and disaccharides like glucose, galactose, xyloss and maltose. In the case of dense alumina slurry with sucrose, sucrose content or additional water content enhanced to the plasticity of the slurries.