Experimental study of forces between quasi-two-dimensional emulsion droplets near jamming
arXiv:1206.0070 · doi:10.1039/C3SM27287G
Abstract
We experimentally study the jamming of quasi-two-dimensional emulsions. Our experiments consist of oil-in-water emulsion droplets confined between two parallel plates. From the droplet outlines, we can determine the forces between every droplet pair to within 8% over a wide range of area fractions . We study three bidisperse samples that jam at area fractions . Our data show that for , the contact numbers and pressure have power-law dependence on in agreement with the critical scaling found in numerical simulations. Furthermore, we see a link between the interparticle force law and the exponent for the pressure scaling, supporting prior computational observations. We also observe linear-like force chains (chains of large inter-droplet forces) that extend over 10 particle lengths, and examine the origin of their linearity. We find that the relative orientation of large force segments are random and that the tendency for force chains to be linear is not due to correlations in the direction of neighboring large forces, but instead occurs because the directions are biased towards being linear to balance the forces on each droplet.
14 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables
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