Elasticity of jammed packings of sticky disks
Dion Koeze, Lingtjien Hong, Abhishek Kumar, Brian P. Tighe
Abstract
The authors determine the elastic moduli of a model for soft amorphous solids such as foams, emulsions, and pastes. The paper shows that the amplitude of the moduli and the packing fraction where the solid phase appears depend on the binding force between particles.
Topics & Concepts
Elasticity (physics)ModuliMaterials scienceElastic modulusAmorphous solidComposite materialAmplitudePhase (matter)Atomic packing factorMechanicsCrystallographyPhysicsChemistryOpticsQuantum mechanicsMaterial Dynamics and PropertiesPickering emulsions and particle stabilizationRheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies