Critical jamming of frictional grains in the generalized isostaticity picture

Details Critical jamming of frictional grains in the generalized isostaticity picture Critical jamming of frictional grains in the generalized isostaticity picture

2009-07-20

arxiv.org/abs/0907.3451v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRE

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While frictionless spheres at jamming are isostatic, frictional spheres at jamming are not. As a result, frictional spheres near jamming do not necessarily exhibit an excess of soft modes. However, a generalized form of isostaticity can be introduced if fully mobilized contacts at the Coulomb friction threshold are considered as slipping contacts. We show here that, in this framework, the vibrational density of states (DOS) of frictional discs exhibits a plateau when the generalized isostaticity line is approached. The crossover frequency to elastic behavior scales linearly with the distance from this line. Moreover, we show that the frictionless limit, which appears singular when fully mobilized contacts are treated elastically, becomes smooth when fully mobilized contacts are allowed to slip.

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