Adhesives are currently becoming increasingly important in a wide variety of applications in the dental, industrial, and health care industries. Two-component adhesives are being used more and more because of their unique properties, and static mixers are the most frequent choice for mixing the two-component material before application.
When selecting the optimum static mixer, the rheological properties of the starting components and their mixing ratio play an important role. In particular, highly viscous materials with a high proportion of fillers often have a pronounced non-Newtonian behavior. Therefore, a good understanding of the rheological behavior of the components to be mixed is important.