Statistics of the contact network in frictional and frictionless granular packings

Details Statistics of the contact network in frictional and frictionless granular packings Statistics of the contact network in frictional and frictionless granular packings

2002-08-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0208462v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

11 pages, 13 figures, submitted to PRE

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.66.061303

Simulated granular packings with different particle friction coefficient mu are examined. The distribution of the particle-particle and particle-wall normal and tangential contact forces P(f) are computed and compared with existing experimental data. Here f equivalent to F/F-bar is the contact force F normalized by the average value F-bar. P(f) exhibits exponential-like decay at large forces, a plateau/peak near f = 1, with additional features at forces smaller than the average that depend on mu. Computations of the force-force spatial distribution function and the contact point radial distribution function indicate that correlations between forces are only weakly dependent on friction and decay rapidly beyond approximately three particle diameters. Distributions of the particle-particle contact angles show that the contact network is not isotropic and only weakly dependent on friction. High force-bearing structures, or force chains, do not play a dominant role in these three dimensional, unloaded packings.

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