Nonlinear viscoelasticity of metastable complex fluids
Europhysics Letters, 2006•iopscience.iop.org
Many metastable complex fluids such as colloidal glasses and gels show distinct nonlinear
viscoelasticity with increasing oscillatory-strain amplitude; the storage modulus decreases
monotonically as the strain amplitude increases whereas the loss modulus has a distinct
peak before it decreases at larger strains. We present a qualitative argument to explain this
ubiquitous behavior and use mode-coupling theory (MCT) to confirm it. We compare
theoretical predictions to the measured nonlinear viscoelasticity in a dense hard-sphere …
viscoelasticity with increasing oscillatory-strain amplitude; the storage modulus decreases
monotonically as the strain amplitude increases whereas the loss modulus has a distinct
peak before it decreases at larger strains. We present a qualitative argument to explain this
ubiquitous behavior and use mode-coupling theory (MCT) to confirm it. We compare
theoretical predictions to the measured nonlinear viscoelasticity in a dense hard-sphere …
Abstract
Many metastable complex fluids such as colloidal glasses and gels show distinct nonlinear viscoelasticity with increasing oscillatory-strain amplitude; the storage modulus decreases monotonically as the strain amplitude increases whereas the loss modulus has a distinct peak before it decreases at larger strains. We present a qualitative argument to explain this ubiquitous behavior and use mode-coupling theory (MCT) to confirm it. We compare theoretical predictions to the measured nonlinear viscoelasticity in a dense hard-sphere colloidal suspension; reasonable agreement is obtained. The argument given here can be used to obtain new information about linear viscoelasticity of metastable complex fluids from nonlinear strain measurements.
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