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Abstract

Rheological testing of soft materials aims to characterize them through a complex combination of elastic and viscous properties. Its fundamental idea is to apply a force and register the resulting deformation of the material. These tests have applications in a wide range of domains from adjusting oil drilling muds for different rock strata to developing fast-drying paints and quality control in food processing. Yet, visual-interactive means for the explorative analysis of the resulting data are scarce if they exist at all.

Hence, we present VAOS - an open-source visual analysis software for exploring the complex rheological properties of soft materials subjected to oscillatory tests. VAOS offers a specific focus on the visual analysis across multiple samples and test runs at once, which is currently not well supported by existing software. We showcase the utility of VAOS in a usage scenario and two expert interviews, effectively demonstrating the improved ability of scientists to swiftly obtain a rheological fingerprint of complex materials.

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  @InProceedings{VAOS2022,
    author    = {Madsen, Jonas and Sode, Lasse and Frost Dahl, Julie and Corredig, Milena and
                 Schulz, Hans-J\"org},
    booktitle = {Proc. of First International Workshop on Visualization in Testing of Hardware,
                 Software, and Manufacturing},
    title     = {Visual Exploration of Rheological Test Results from Soft Materials},
    year      = {2022},
    publisher = {IEEE}
  }