Elastoviscoplastic rheology and ageing in a simplified soft glassy constitutive model
arXiv:1911.12340 · doi:10.1122/1.5140465
Abstract
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 small amplitude oscillatory shear; slow stress relaxation following the sudden imposition of a small shear strain; stress overshoot in shear startup; logarithmic or sublinear power law creep following the imposition of a shear stress below the yield stress; creep followed by yielding after the imposition of a shear stress above the yield stress; richly featured Lissajous-Bowditch curves in large amplitude oscillatory shear; a Bauschinger effect, in which a material's effective yield strain is lowered under straining in one direction, following a preceding strain in the opposite direction; hysteresis in up-down shear rate sweeps; and (in some materials) thixotropy and/or rheological ageing. A key challenge is to develop a constitutive model that contains enough underlying mesoscopic physics to have meaningful predictive power for the full gamut of rheological behaviour just described, with only a small number of model parameters, and yet is simple enough for use in computational fluid dynamics to predict flows in complicated geometries, or complicated flows that arise due to spontaneous symmetry breaking instabilities even in simple geometries. Here we introduce such a model, motivated by the widely used soft glassy rheology model, and show that it captures all the above rheological features.
15 pages, 9 figures; version accepted, Journal of Rheology
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