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Fluidized States of Vibrated Granular Media Studied by Mechanical Spectroscopy

Daniele Mari, Gérard Gremaud, Alessandro Luigi Sellerio

We investigate the jamming transition observed in vibrated granular systems composed of millimeter size glass beads. When a granular system is submitted to vibrations with decreasing intensity, it evolves in a way similar to glass-forming liquids: from a l ...

Trans Tech Publications Ltd, Laublsrutistr 24, Ch-8717 Stafa-Zurich, Switzerland2012

A unified framework for non-Brownian suspension flows and soft amorphous solids

Matthieu Wyart

While the rheology of non-Brownian suspensions in the dilute regime is well understood, their behavior in the dense limit remains mystifying. As the packing fraction of particles increases, particle motion becomes more collective, leading to a growing leng ...

2012

Glass transition associated with the jamming of vibrated granular matter

Daniele Mari, Gérard Gremaud, Alessandro Luigi Sellerio

We investigate a vibrated granular system composed of millimeter-size glass beads. When the system is submitted to a perturbation with decreasing intensity, below the fluidization limit, it evolves in a way similar to glass-forming liquids until it reaches ...

2011

Mechanics of Growth and Coalescence of Pre-existing Voids in a Ductile Matrix

Tomasz Jodlowski

This research project experimentally and numerically investigates the growth and coalescence of pre-existing voids for a wide range of stress states in a ductile matrix with a special focus on shear dominated loading conditions and presents quantitative ki ...

EPFL2011

Heat transport in model jammed solids

Matthieu Wyart, Ning Xu

We calculate numerically the normal modes of vibrations in three-dimensional jammed packings of soft spheres as a function of the packing fraction and obtain the energy diffusivity, a spectral measure of transport that controls sound propagation and therma ...

2010

Particle shape versus friction in granular jamming

Thomas Liebling, Lionel Pournin, Michel Tsukahara

What is the influence of sand grain shapes on an hourglass accuracy, and how does it affect the jamming probability? We study such a question using numerical simulation and our recently introduced spheropolyhedral particles. Spheropolyhedra constitute a ve ...

AIP2009

Cyclic properties of sand

Emilie Rascol

Seismic wave propagation in granular soils can induce large strain amplitudes in case of strong earthquakes. Seismic motions are irregular in frequency content and in amplitude, and have three different components in orthogonal directions. In this context, ...

EPFL2009

A 3D Granular Model Of Equiaxed-Granular Solidification

Michel Rappaz, Jean-Luc Desbiolles, André Phillion

The solidification of an aluminum-copper alloy has been simulated in 3D using a granular model. Compared to previous similar 2D approaches for where only one phase is continuous, the extension to 3D allows for concurrent continuity of the solid and liquid ...

Minerals, Metals & Materials Soc, 184 Thorn Hill Rd, Warrendale, Pa 15086-7514 Usa2009

Scaling and dynamics of washboard roads

Anne-Florence Raphaëlle Bitbol

Granular surfaces subjected to forces due to rolling wheels develop ripples above a critical speed. The resulting pattern, known as washboard or corrugated road, is common on dry unpaved roads. We investigated this phenomenon theoretically and experimental ...

American Physical Society (APS)2009

A study of the dynamics of saturated granular assemblages and its implications for transport, stress propagation and failure in marine sediments

Nicolas Le Dantec

The subject of small-scale marine sediment mechanics is an area of active research, motivated by its key role in beach and shelf processes. Much of the existing small-scale work has focused on two-phase flows and particle behavior at the sediment interface ...

University of California San Diego2009

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