Hyperstaticity and loops in frictional granular packings

Details Hyperstaticity and loops in frictional granular packings Hyperstaticity and loops in frictional granular packings

2009-06-09

arxiv.org/abs/0906.1703v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages; Powders and Grains 2009, Golden, Colorado, USA

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The hyperstatic nature of granular packings of perfectly rigid disks is analyzed algebraically and through numerical simulation. The elementary loops of grains emerge as a fundamental element in addressing hyperstaticity. Loops consisting of an odd number of grains behave differently than those with an even number. For odd loops, the latent stresses are exterior and are characterized by the sum of frictional forces around each loop. For even loops, the latent stresses are interior and are characterized by the alternating sum of frictional forces around each loop. The statistics of these two types of loop sums are found to be Gibbsian with a "temperature" that is linear with the friction coefficient mu when mu<1.

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