2002/09/17 by Ludovic Berthier · 2 citations
Chemistry · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions #Material Dynamics and Properties #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0953-8984/15/11/317
published as J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 15, S933 (2003) · Paper presented at "III Workshop on Non Equilibrium Phenomena...", Pisa 22-27 Sep. 2002
arxiv created 2002/09/17 · openalex publication_date 2003/03/10 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
The rheological behaviour of soft glassy materials results essentially from the interplay between shearing forces and an intrinsic slow dynamics. This competition can be described by a microscopic theory, which can be viewed as a nonequilibrium schematic mode-coupling theory. This statistical mechanics approach to rheology results in a series of detailed theoretical predictions, some of which are yet to be experimentally verified. We present new, preliminary, results about the description of yield stress, flow heterogeneities and activated processes within this theoretical framework.