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  • Dense particulate suspensions exhibit complex mechanical behaviors governed by thermal fluctuations, geometric exclusion, and external driving forces.
  • Understanding these behaviors is crucial for applications involving granular materials, colloids, and other complex fluids.

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  • To investigate the stress-strain response of quasi-two-dimensional flow-stabilized microsphere heaps.
  • To explore the influence of confining stress on the elastic modulus and interparticle separation.
  • To determine the underlying physics governing the mechanical response, considering thermal, excluded volume, and many-body interactions.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a microfluidic device to create and study quasi-two-dimensional flow-stabilized microsphere heaps.
  • Measured the stress-strain response under varying confining stresses provided by fluid flow.
  • Applied a thermal van der Waals equation of state with excluded volume to model the observed behavior.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated that the elastic modulus and mean interparticle separation of microsphere heaps are tunable by the confining fluid stress.
  • Observed a universal nonlinear shape in the stress-strain curves across different conditions.
  • The data were successfully predicted using a thermal van der Waals equation of state incorporating excluded volume effects.

Conclusions:

  • Many-body interactions play a significant role in the mechanical stress supported by dense particulate heaps.
  • The mechanical response of these systems can be effectively described by a modified equation of state that accounts for thermal effects and particle interactions.
  • Flow-stabilized microfluidic systems provide a powerful platform for studying fundamental properties of dense suspensions.