Tuning residual stress, directional memory and aging in soft glassy materials
arXiv:2402.08293 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.15.011043
Abstract
When glassy materials are rapidly quenched from the liquid to the solid state upon flow cessation or cooling, they solidify in an out-of-equilibrium configuration, retaining the memory of the processing conditions for very long times. This is the origin of various phenomena, such as residual stresses and directional memory, which greatly affect their properties. At the same time, annealing the mechanical history encoded in disordered materials constitute a great challenge. Here, we address this problem for the case of colloidal glasses made of soft particles densely packed at a high volume fraction, using experiments and particle dynamic simulations. We demonstrate that periodically training soft particle glasses with a sequence of stress-controlled oscillations successfully anneals residual stress and directional memory when the stress amplitude corresponds to the yield point. At the microscopic level, annealing provides a fine tuning of the local distribution of the stress carried by the particles. Through the simulations, we show that the first moments of this distribution have precise physical meaning: the mean value of the distribution corresponds to the macroscopic stress; the skewness carries information about directional memory; and the standard deviation is related to mechanical aging. The same methodology is successfully applied to silica gels with thixotropic properties, suggesting that it is general and may be extended to other classes of disordered materials.
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