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Time dependence in large amplitude oscillatory shear: a rheo-ultrasonic study of fatigue dynamics in a colloidal gel (1401.3369v1)

Published 14 Jan 2014 in cond-mat.soft

Abstract: We report on the response of a yield stress material, namely a colloidal gel made of attractive carbon black particles, submitted to large amplitude oscillatory shear stress (LAOStress). At a constant stress amplitude well below its apparent yield stress, the gel displays fatigue and progressively turns from an elastic solid to a viscous fluid. The time-resolved analysis of the strain response, of the Fourier spectrum, and of Lissajous plots allows one to define two different timescales $\tau_w<\tau_f$ associated with the yielding and fluidization of the gel. Coupling rheology to ultrasonic imaging further leads to a local picture of the LAOStress response in which the gel first fails at the walls at $\tau_w$ and then undergoes a slow heterogeneous fluidization involving solid--fluid coexistence until the whole sample is fluid at $\tau_f$. Spatial heterogeneities are observed in both the gradient and vorticity directions and suggest a fragmentation of the initially solidlike gel into macroscopic domains eroded by the surrounding fluidized suspension.

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