Multiscale stress dynamics in sheared liquid foams revealed by tomo-rheoscopy

Florian Schott (), Benjamin Dollet, Stéphane Santucci (), Christian Matthias Schlepütz, Cyrille Claudet, Stefan Gstöhl, Christophe Raufaste and Rajmund Mokso
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Florian Schott: Lund University
Benjamin Dollet: LIPhy
Stéphane Santucci: UMR5672
Christian Matthias Schlepütz: Paul Scherrer Institut
Cyrille Claudet: INPHYNI
Stefan Gstöhl: Paul Scherrer Institut
Christophe Raufaste: INPHYNI
Rajmund Mokso: Lund University

Nature Communications, 2025, vol. 16, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: Abstract Rheology aims at quantifying the response of materials to mechanical forcing. However, standard rheometers provide only global macroscopic quantities, such as viscoelastic moduli. They fail to capture the heterogeneous flow of soft amorphous materials at the mesoscopic scale, arising from the rearrangements of the microstructural elements, that must be accounted for to build predictive models. To address this experimental challenge, we have combined shear rheometry and time-resolved X-ray micro-tomography on 3D liquid foams used as model soft jammed materials, yielding a unique access to the stresses and contact network topology at the bubble scale. We reveal a universal scaling behavior of the local stress build-up and relaxation associated with topological modifications. Moreover, these plastic events redistribute stress non-locally, as if the foam were an elastic medium subjected to a quadrupolar deformation. Our findings clarify how the macroscopic elastoplastic behavior of amorphous materials emerges from the spatiotemporal stress variations induced by microstructural rearrangements.

Date: 2025
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