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JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY
Volume 50, Issue 6, Pages 975-994Publisher
SOC RHEOLOGY
DOI: 10.1122/1.2337259
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We carried out systematic creep tests after different times of rest and over sufficiently long times with pasty materials of various internal structures in a Couette geometry. From an analysis of the data taking into account the inertia of the system and the heterogeneous distribution of stress, we show that: (i) for a stress below the yield stress these materials remain solid but undergo residual, irreversible deformations over long time which exhibit some trends typical of aging in glassy systems; (ii) as a result of thixotropy (or aging) in the solid regime the elastic modulus increases logarithmically with the time of rest; (iii) in the liquid regime the effective behavior of the material can be well represented by a truncated power-law model; (iv) a fundamental parameter of the solid-liquid transition is a critical effective shear rate (associated with the yield stress) below which the material cannot flow steadily. (c) 2006 The Society of Rheology.
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