Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: Stimulated by recent experimental results, we simulate "temperature"-cycling experiments in a model for the compaction of granular media. We report on the existence of two types of memory effects: short-term dependence on the history of the sample, and long-term memory for highly compact (aged) systems. A natural interpretation of these results is provided by the analysis of the density heterogeneities.
Source: Europhysics Letters (EPL)
Institutions: Université Paris-Sud, Sapienza University of Rome
Language: English
Subfield: Computational Mechanics
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2032910171