Force indeterminacy in the jammed state of hard disks

Details Force indeterminacy in the jammed state of hard disks Force indeterminacy in the jammed state of hard disks

2004-03-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0403089v3

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 178001 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 3 figures. Minor changes, journal reference added

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.178001

Granular packings of hard discs are investigated by means of contact dynamics which is an appropriate technique to explore the allowed force-realizations in the space of contact forces. Configurations are generated for given values of the friction coefficient, and then an ensemble of equilibrium forces is found for fixed contacts. We study the force fluctuations within this ensemble. In the limit of zero friction the fluctuations vanish in accordance with the isostaticity of the packing. The magnitude of the fluctuations has a non-monotonous friction dependence. The increase for small friction can be attributed to the opening of the angle of the Coulomb cone, while the decrease as friction increases is due to the reduction of connectivity of the contact-network, leading to local, independent clusters of indeterminacy. We discuss the relevance of indeterminacy to packings of deformable particles and to the mechanical response properties.

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