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Shear jamming and fragility in dense suspensions

Soft Condensed Matter 2021-07-08 v2 Statistical Mechanics Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

The phenomenon of shear-induced jamming is a factor in the complex rheological behavior of dense suspensions. Such shear-jammed states are fragile, i.e., they are not stable against applied stresses that are incompatible with the stress imposed to create them. This peculiar flow-history dependence of the stress response is due to flow-induced microstructures. To examine jammed states realized under constant shear stress, we perform dynamic simulations of non-Brownian particles with frictional contact forces and hydrodynamic lubrication forces. We find clear signatures that distinguish these fragile states from the more conventional isotropic jammed states.

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@article{arxiv.1902.04361,
  title  = {Shear jamming and fragility in dense suspensions},
  author = {Ryohei Seto and Abhinendra Singh and Bulbul Chakraborty and Morton M. Denn and Jeffrey F. Morris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.04361},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Supplementary Material: https://youtu.be/v5LKX8bpP-w

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