We investigate the process of shear melting and resolidification of a colloidal glass, directly after loading (preyielding) and after a series of consecutive strain sweeps (postyielding). The postyielding glass shows a significant softening compared with the preyielding glass, together with the absence of history effects in successive shear melting protocols, indicating a reproducible process of fluidisation and resolidification into a glass state unaffected by residual stresses. However, a significant hysteresis characterizes strain sweeps with increasing or decreasing strain amplitude. The appearance of history and hysteresis effects coincides with the formation of a glass state, whereas it is not observed in the liquid. We can describe the onset of shear melting over a broad range of volume fractions and frequencies using a recently developed model which describes the yielding process in terms of loss of long-lived nearest neighbors.
A well defined glass state obtained by oscillatory shear / L. Pérez-Ocampo, A. Zaccone, M. Laurati. - In: JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY. - ISSN 0148-6055. - 62:1(2018 Jan 08), pp. 197-207. [10.1122/1.5009199]
A well defined glass state obtained by oscillatory shear
A. ZacconePenultimo
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2018
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We investigate the process of shear melting and resolidification of a colloidal glass, directly after loading (preyielding) and after a series of consecutive strain sweeps (postyielding). The postyielding glass shows a significant softening compared with the preyielding glass, together with the absence of history effects in successive shear melting protocols, indicating a reproducible process of fluidisation and resolidification into a glass state unaffected by residual stresses. However, a significant hysteresis characterizes strain sweeps with increasing or decreasing strain amplitude. The appearance of history and hysteresis effects coincides with the formation of a glass state, whereas it is not observed in the liquid. We can describe the onset of shear melting over a broad range of volume fractions and frequencies using a recently developed model which describes the yielding process in terms of loss of long-lived nearest neighbors.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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