Year: 2000
Type: article
Abstract: We investigate the dynamic evolution of jamming in granular media through fluctuations in the granular drag force. The successive collapse and formation of jammed states give a stick-slip nature to the fluctuations which is independent of the contact surface between the grains and the dragged object, thus implying that the stress-induced collapse is nucleated in the bulk of the granular sample. We also find that while the fluctuations are periodic at small depths, they become "stepped" at large depths, a transition which we interpret as a consequence of the long-range nature of the force chains.
Source: Physical Review Letters
Authors: I. Albert, P. Tegzes, B. Kahng, R. Albert, J. G. Sample, M. Pfeifer, A.-L. Barabási, T. Vicsek, P. Schiffer
Language: English
Subfield: Computational Mechanics
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2089714604