Mechanical rejuvenation and over-aging in the soft glassy rheology model

Details Mechanical rejuvenation and over-aging in the soft glassy rheology model Mechanical rejuvenation and over-aging in the soft glassy rheology model

2008-07-04

arxiv.org/abs/0807.0819v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

8 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.78.041502

Mechanical rejuvenation and over-aging of glasses is investigated through stochastic simulations of the soft glassy rheology (SGR) model. Strain- and stress-controlled deformation cycles for a wide range of loading conditions are analyzed and compared to molecular dynamics simulations of a model polymer glass. Results indicate that deformation causes predominantly rejuvenation, whereas over-aging occurs only at very low temperature, small strains, and for high initial energy states. Although the creep compliance in the SGR model exhibits full aging independent of applied load, large stresses in the nonlinear creep regime cause configurational changes leading to rejuvenation of the relaxation time spectrum probed after a stress cycle. During recovery, however, the rejuvenated state rapidly returns to the original aging trajectory due to collective relaxations of the internal strain.

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