What Determines the Static Force Chains in Stressed Granular Media?

Oleg Gendelman, Yoav G. Pollack, Itamar Procaccia, Shiladitya Sengupta, Jacques Zylberg

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Abstract

The determination of the normal and transverse (frictional) interparticle forces within a granular medium is a long-standing, daunting, and yet unresolved problem. We present a new formalism that employs the knowledge of the external forces and the orientations of contacts between particles (of any given size), to compute all the interparticle forces. Having solved this problem, we exemplify the efficacy of the formalism showing that the force chains in such systems are determined by an expansion in the eigenfunctions of a newly defined operator.

Original languageEnglish
Article number078001
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume116
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 17 Feb 2016

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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