The Medium Amplitude Response of Nonlinear Maxwell-Oldroyd Type Models in Simple Shear

TL;DR

This paper develops a mathematical framework to analyze the medium amplitude shear response of nonlinear Maxwell-Oldroyd models, identifying their signatures and limitations for model discrimination using rheological data.

Contribution

It introduces a basis expansion for third order complex viscosity signatures, enabling quantitative model identification and highlighting limitations in distinguishing nonlinear features.

Findings

Limited signatures for nonlinear Maxwell models in medium amplitude shear.

Three-tone oscillatory shear effectively distinguishes model features.

Normal stress differences provide partial information, mainly the second normal stress difference.

Abstract

A general framework for Maxwell-Oldroyd type differential constitutive models is examined, in which an unspecified nonlinear function of the stress and rate-of-deformation tensors is incorporated into the well-known corotational version of the Jeffreys model discussed by Oldroyd. For medium amplitude simple shear deformations, the recently developed mathematical framework of medium amplitude parallel superposition (MAPS) rheology reveals that this generalized nonlinear Maxwell model can produce only a limited number of distinct signatures, which combine linearly in a well-posed basis expansion for the third order complex viscosity. This basis expansion represents a library of MAPS signatures for distinct constitutive models that are contained within the generalized nonlinear Maxwell model. We describe a framework for quantitative model identification using this basis expansion, and discuss its limitations in distinguishing distinct nonlinear features of the underlying constitutive models from medium amplitude shear stress data. The leading order contributions to the normal stress differences are also considered, revealing that only the second normal stress difference provides distinct information about the weakly nonlinear response space of the model. After briefly considering the conditions for time-strain separability within the generalized nonlinear Maxwell model, we apply the basis expansion of the third order complex viscosity to derive the medium amplitude signatures of the model in specific shear deformation protocols. Finally, we use these signatures for estimation of model parameters from rheological data obtained by these different deformation protocols, revealing that three-tone oscillatory shear deformations produce data that is readily able to distinguish all features of the medium amplitude, simple shear response space of this generalized class of constitutive models.