preshear
nounEtymology From pre- + shear.
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shear applied before another process
- For applied shear stresses lower than some typical value #92;sigma#95;#92;text#123;c#125;#92;simeq 0.2#92;sigma#95;#92;text#123;y#125;, the microgel experiences a more complex, anomalous creep behavior, characterized by an initial decrease of the strain, that we attribute to the existence of residual stresses of the order of #92;sigma#95;#92;text#123;c#125; after preshear.2016, Pierre Lidon, Louis Villa, Sebastien Manneville, “Power-law creep and residual stresses in a carbopol microgel”, in arXiv: