A method for predicting and calculating aggregate surface energy is provided and includes steps: (1) raw aggregate screening and treatment; (2) surface texture index acquirement of a polished aggregate and an untreated raw aggregate; (3) powdered aggregate testing by a capillary rise method; (4) polished aggregate testing by a sessile drop method; (5) function relationship formula fitting; and (6) surface energy calculation of raw aggregate. The method not only considers the influence of aggregate's own composition on the surface energy, but also considers the influence of the polishing treatment on the aggregate surface texture, analyzes actual surface texture conditions of the aggregate, and significantly improves the test accuracy by combining the sessile drop method and the capillary rise method. Moreover, it can replace vapor adsorption method to test the surface energy of aggregate, which greatly reduces the test cost and operation difficulty.

Provided are a physical property measurement method, a physical property measurement device, and a probe that can simply measure physical properties of a surface layer portion of an object. A physical property measurement method includes a step of bringing a probe into contact with a surface layer portion of a liquid or gel-like object and maintaining a contact state, a step of measuring a height of the object rising along the probe in contact with the object, and a step of calculating viscous properties or elastic properties of the surface layer portion of the object using the measured height of the object rising along the probe.

The properties of a fluid body in the form of a surface-attached droplet/bubble can be determined. A data set is stored describing a plurality of droplets/bubbles of different shapes; each shape is captured as a combination of two or more linear dimensional measurements. For each shape the data set includes one or more parameters describing the relationship between the physical properties of a pair of fluids capable of forming that shape as a surface-attached droplet/bubble disposed in a surrounding fluid medium. A fluid body is provided in the form of a surface-attached droplet/bubble and a plurality of linear dimensional measurements are taken and provided as input to a processing apparatus. Processing apparatus determines from the data set the one or more parameters associated with the shape described by said linear dimensional measurements. Particular the surface tension of a fluid can be found in this way based on simple dimensional measurements.

Methods, apparatus, and kits for detecting and optionally quantifying amphiphilic compounds in the environment, in media samples, and on objects by determining an initial surface energy of a surface of a sample substrate, exposing the sample substrate surface to a medium that contains or is suspected to contain an amphiphilic compound for a time sufficient for the amphiphilic compound to interact with the sample substrate surface, determining a post-exposure surface energy of the surface of the sample substrate, determining a change in the surface energy of the sample substrate surface, and correlating the determined change in surface energy of the sample substrate surface with a presence and/or character of amphiphilic compounds in the medium.

Disclosed is a method for measuring surface tension based on an axisymmetric droplet contour curve. The method comprises: photographing a suspended droplet image, and extracting a droplet contour curve; selecting a measurement point on the droplet contour curve; and calculating the surface tension of a liquid using the following formula

[00001]$\sigma =\frac{\mathrm{\Delta \rho }\mathrm{gV}+P\pi R^2}{2\pi R\sin \left(\theta \right)},$

wherein σ is the surface tension of the liquid, Δρ is the density difference between the liquid and the atmosphere, g is the local gravitational acceleration, P is the pressure at the cross section of the droplet cut from a horizontal plane of the measurement point, R is the radius of a circular surface formed by cutting the droplet, θ is the inclination angle between the tangent line of the measurement point on the droplet and the horizontal plane, and V is the droplet volume at the lower part of the cross section of the droplet.

Various examples are provided related to measuring surface tension. In one example, a method includes levitating a sample using electrostatic levitation; applying a signal to at least one electrode to excite the sample into a n=3 mode of oscillation; capturing images of the sample with a respective image being associated with a particular frequency that is applied to the sample when the respective image is captured; quantifying sample resonance using a projection method of Legendre polynomials based on the plurality of images; and determining a measured resonance frequency of the sample by an analysis of the sample resonance. The sample can be levitated using a feedback-controlled voltage and the applied signal can be swept over a range of frequencies. A system including electrodes, a position sensor, a camera device, and at least one computing device can be used to carry out the method.

Methods may include emplacing a downhole tool within a wellbore, sampling a fluid downhole with the downhole tool; analyzing the fluid, and calculating an interfacial tension (IFT), wherein calculating the acid-base IFT contribution comprises measuring a concentration of a surface-active species directly. Apparatuses for measuring an interfacial tension (IFT) in a fluid downhole may be part of a downhole tool and may include a sampling head to sample the fluid; and a downhole fluid analysis module that includes a spectrometer capable of measuring a concentration of a surface-active species in the fluid, and a processor configured to determine the IFT of the fluid downhole based on the measured concentration of the surface-active species.

A method includes determining a critical micelle concentration (C.sub.cm assumed) of a sample with an unknown concentration (C.sub.s) of a surfactant based on an assumed surfactant concentration (C.sub.assumed) of the sample, providing a benchmark solution with a known concentration of the surfactant, determining an actual critical micelle concentration (C.sub.cm) of the surfactant from the benchmark solution, and calculating the unknown concentration (C.sub.s) of the surfactant in the sample from the following equation: C.sub.s=C.sub.cm/(C.sub.cm assumed/C.sub.assumed).

A method includes determining a critical micelle concentration (C.sub.cm assumed) of a sample with an unknown concentration (C.sub.s) of a surfactant based on an assumed surfactant concentration (C.sub.assumed) of the sample, providing a benchmark solution with a known concentration of the surfactant, determining an actual critical micelle concentration (C.sub.cm) of the surfactant from the benchmark solution, and calculating the unknown concentration (C.sub.s) of the surfactant in the sample from the following equation: C.sub.s=C.sub.cm/(C.sub.cm assumed/C.sub.assumed).

A measuring device includes a furnace, a draining vessel, a loader and a computing system for physical properties. The draining vessel with molten metal fluid is in the furnace. The loader accumulates the molten metal fluid from the draining vessel. The computing system includes a recording unit, transform unit, computing unit and processor. The recording unit records the vessel information. By the assumed physical parameters and the vessel information, the transform unit transforms a weight of the molten metal fluid in the loader into a first length criterion, and the computing unit simulates the flowing of the molten metal fluid to have a second length criterion. The processor minimizes the difference of the first and the second length criterion by changing the assumed physical parameters. The physical properties of the molten metal fluid are determined when the difference is minimized.