A remote query magnetostrictive viscosity sensor.

Magnetically soft, magnetostrictive metallic glass ribbons are used as in-situ remote query viscosity sensors. When immersed in a liquid, changes in the resonant frequency of the ribbon-like sensors are shown to correlate with the square root of the liquid viscosity and density product. An elastic wave model is presented that describes the sensor response as a function of the frictional forces acting upon the sensor surface.

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