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Corn. --- Corn --- Corn products.

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Tortilla industry. --- Corn products. --- Flour. --- Wheat products. --- Tortillas. --- Flatbreads --- Cereal products --- Flours --- Wheat flour --- Plant products --- Cereal products industry

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Cooking (Corn) --- Corn chips. --- Family-owned business enterprises --- Corn products industry --- History --- Doolin, Charles Elmer, --- Family. --- Frito-Lay, Inc.

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This thesis approaches impact resistance in dense suspensions from a new perspective. The most well-known example of dense suspensions, a mixture of cornstarch and water, provides enough impact resistance to allow a person to run across its surface. In the past, this phenomenon had been linked to "shear thickening" under a steady shear state attributed to hydrodynamic interactions or granular dilation. However, neither explanation accounted for the stress scales required for a person to run on the surface. Through this research, it was discovered that the impact resistance is due to local compression of the particle matrix. This compression forces the suspension across the jamming transition and precipitates a rapidly growing solid mass. This growing solid, as a result, absorbs the impact energy. This is the first observation of such jamming front, linking nonlinear suspension dynamics in a new way to the jamming phase transition known from dry granular materials.

Physics. --- Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics. --- Fluid- and Aerodynamics. --- Spectroscopy and Microscopy. --- Physique --- Amorphous substances. --- Condensed matter. --- Plasma spectroscopy. --- Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Atomic Physics --- Solidification. --- Cornstarch. --- Corn-starch --- Fluids. --- Complex fluids. --- Spectroscopy. --- Microscopy. --- Corn products --- Starch --- Crystallization --- Heat --- Melting points --- Solutions, Solid --- Analysis, Microscopic --- Light microscopy --- Micrographic analysis --- Microscope and microscopy --- Microscopic analysis --- Optical microscopy --- Optics --- Analysis, Spectrum --- Spectra --- Spectrochemical analysis --- Spectrochemistry --- Spectrometry --- Spectroscopy --- Chemistry, Analytic --- Interferometry --- Radiation --- Wave-motion, Theory of --- Absorption spectra --- Light --- Spectroscope --- Hydraulics --- Mechanics --- Hydrostatics --- Permeability --- Complex liquids --- Fluids, Complex --- Amorphous substances --- Liquids --- Soft condensed matter --- Qualitative --- Analytical chemistry