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We study the emergence of a yield stress in dense suspensions of non-Brownian particles, by combining local velocity and concentration measurements using Magnetic Resonance Imaging with macroscopic rheometric experiments. We show that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Abdoulaye Fall , Francois Bertrand , Guillaume Ovarlez , Daniel Bonn

Systems driven far from equilibrium often retain structural memories of their processing history. This memory has, in some cases, been shown to dramatically alter the material response. For example, work hardening in crystalline metals can…

Yield stress fluids display a rich rheological phenomenology. Beyond the defining existence of a yield stress in the steady state flow curve, this includes in many materials rather flat viscoelastic spectra over many decades of frequency in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-22 Suzanne M. Fielding

Shear induced drainage of a foamy yield stress fluid is investigated using MRI techniques. Whereas the yield stress of the interstitial fluid stabilizes the system at rest, a fast drainage is observed when a horizontal shear is imposed. It…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-03-31 Julie Goyon , François Bertrand , Olivier Pitois , Guillaume Ovarlez

The onset and growth of rigid clusters in a two-dimensional (2D) suspension in shear flow are studied by numerical simulations. The suspension exhibits the lubricated-to-frictional rheology transition, but the key results here are for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-27 Aritra Santra , Michel Orsi , Bulbul Chakraborty , Jeffrey F. Morris

We report on experimental measurements of the flow behavior of a wet, two-dimensional foam under conditions of slow, steady shear. The initial response of the foam is elastic. Above the yield strain, the foam begins to flow. The flow…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 John Lauridsen , Michael Twardos , Michael Dennin

An interesting recent paper by Menga, Carbone & Dini (MCD, 2018, [1]), suggests that in sliding adhesive contacts, the contact area should increase due to tangential shear stresses at the interface, assumed to be constant and corresponding…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Cricrì , M. Ciavarella

We report rheological measurements of a noncolloidal particle suspension in a Newtonian solvent at 40% solid volume fraction. An anomalous, frequency-dependent complex viscosity is found under oscillatory shear (OS) flow, whereas a constant…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-09 Zhouyang Ge , Raffaella Martone , Luca Brandt , Mario Minale

Dense particulate suspensions can not only increase their viscosity and shear thicken under external forcing, but also jam into a solid-like state that is fully reversible when the force is removed. An impact on the surface of a dense…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-05-10 Endao Han , Liang Zhao , Nigel Van Ha , S. Tonia Hsieh , Daniel B. Szyld , Heinrich M. Jaeger

Many soft jammed materials, such as pastes, gels, concentrated emulsions, and suspensions, possess a threshold stress, known as yield stress, that must be exceeded to cause permanent deformation or flow. In rheology, the term plastic flow…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-03 Yogesh M. Joshi , Alexander Ya. Malkin

At the same solid volume fraction, bidisperse and polydisperse suspensions display lower viscosities, and weaker normal stress response, compared to monodisperse suspensions. The reduction of viscosity associated with size distribution can…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-14 Sidhant Pednekar , Jaehun Chun , Jeffrey Morris

We investigate the dynamic evolution of heterogeneity in shear-thickening suspensions subjected to swirling excitation with a free surface. The uniform state of such a system may lose its stability when the oscillation frequency is above a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-08 Li-Xin Shi , Song-Chuan Zhao

We present a comprehensive rheological study of a suspension of thermosensitive particles dispersed in water. The volume fraction of these particles can be adjusted by the temperature of the system in a continuous fashion. Due to the finite…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-04-21 Miriam Siebenbuerger , Matthias Fuchs , Henning Winter , Matthias Ballauff

Memory-forming properties introduce a new paradigm to the design of adaptive materials. In dense suspensions, an adaptive response is enabled by non-Newtonian rheology; however, typical suspensions have little memory, which implies rapid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-13 Hojin Kim , Samantha M. Livermore , Stuart J. Rowan , Heinrich M. Jaeger

We show experimentally that multiple soft glassy fluids are capable of storing directional rheological signatures from past shear history, evidenced during stress growth and overall nonmonotonic stress relaxation after small steps in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-10 Crystal E. Owens

We present simulations for the steady-shear rheology of a model adhesive dispersion. We vary the range of the attractive forces $u$ as well as the strength of the dissipation $b$. For large dissipative forces, the rheology is governed by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-24 Ehsan Irani , Pinaki Chaudhuri , Claus Heussinger

Cessation of flow in simple yield stress fluids results in a complex stress relaxation process that depends on the preceding flow conditions and leads to finite residual stresses. To assess the microscopic origin of this phenomenon, we…

Compression stiffening, or an increase in shear modulus with increasing compressive strain, has been observed in recent rheometry experiments on brain, liver, and fat tissues. Here, we extend the known types of biomaterials exhibiting this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-05 T. A. Engstrom , K. Pogoda , K. Cruz , P. A. Janmey , J. M. Schwarz

Recent experiments report that slowly-sheared noncolloidal particle suspensions can exhibit unexpected rate($\omega$)-dependent complex viscosities in oscillatory shear, despite a constant relative viscosity in steady shear. Using a minimal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-29 Zhouyang Ge , Raffaella Martone , Luca Brandt , Mario Minale

We report surface shear rheological measurements on dense insoluble monolayers of micron sized colloidal spheres at the oil/water interface and of the protein $\beta$-lactoglobulin at the air/water surface. As expected, the elastic modulus…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Pietro Cicuta , Edward J. Stancik , Gerald G. Fuller