Complex oscillatory yielding of model hard-sphere glasses.

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Rearrangements in hard-sphere glasses under oscillatory shear strain.

We investigate particle rearrangements in colloidal glasses subjected to oscillatory shear strain by the technique of light scattering (LS) echo. LS echo directly follows the motion of the particles through peaks (echoes) in the intensity autocorrelation function; the height of the peak measures the reversible motion in the sample. Polydisperse hard-sphere poly-methylmethacrylate particles were...

Yielding of hard-sphere glasses during start-up shear.

Concentrated hard-sphere suspensions and glasses are investigated with rheometry, confocal microscopy, and Brownian dynamics simulations during start-up shear, providing a link between microstructure, dynamics, and rheology. The microstructural anisotropy is manifested in the extension axis where the maximum of the pair-distribution function exhibits a minimum at the stress overshoot. The inter...

Solvation Force in Hard Ellipsoid Molecular Liquids with Rod-Sphere and Rod- Surface Interactions

In previous work, one of us calculated the Solvation force of hard ellipsoid fluid with hard Gaussian overlap potential using hard needle wall interaction and non-linear equation proposed by Grimson- Rickyazen. In present work, using density functional theory and extended restricted orientation model, the solvation force of hard ellipsoid fluid in presence of more realistic rod- sphere and rod-...

Yielding of colloidal gels under steady and oscillatory shear

Submitted for the MAR15 Meeting of The American Physical Society Yielding of colloidal gels under steady and oscillatory shear GEORGE PETEKIDIS, ESMAEEL MOGHIMI, NICK KOUMAKIS, IESLFORTH, FORTH TEAM — The structural and rheological properties of intermediate volume fraction colloid polymer gels are examined during and after steady and oscillatory shear flow using rheometry, confocal microscopy,...