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Glossary:Bingham plastic
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A rheological model used to describe flow in some fluids. Bingham fluids have a linear shear stress, shear-rate behavior after an initial shear-stress boundary has been crossed. Plastic viscosity or PV is the slope of the line. Yield Point is the threshold.