Microstructure and nonlinear signatures of yielding in a heterogeneous colloidal gel under large amplitude oscillatory shear

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1359-1390

  Kim, Juntae ^a   Merger, Dimitri ^b   Wilhelm, Manfred ^b   Helgeson, Matthew E ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGELS; STRAIN;

AMPLITUDE DEPENDENCE; CHARACTERISTIC FREQUENCIES; HETEROGENEOUS STRUCTURES; INTER-CLUSTER BONDS; LARGE AMPLITUDE OSCILLATORY SHEAR; NON-LINEAR MECHANICAL PROCESS; NON-LINEAR PARAMETERS; STRUCTURAL BREAKDOWN;

MICROSTRUCTURE;

EID: 84906687214     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: 15208516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.4882019     Document Type: Article

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84. See supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.4882019 E-JORHD2-58-010405 for characterization of wall slip, extended Pipkin diagram of LAOS data, and additional analysis of scattering data.