Nonlinear elastic stress response in granular packings

Details Nonlinear elastic stress response in granular packings Nonlinear elastic stress response in granular packings

2007-06-24

arxiv.org/abs/0706.3513v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

15 pages, 12 figures; additional discussion added at several points in text

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.77.031303

We study the nonlinear elastic response of a two-dimensional material to a localized boundary force, with the particular goal of understanding the differences observed between isotropic granular materials and those with hexagonal anisotropy. Corrections to the classical Boussinesq result for the stresses in an infinite half-space of a linear, isotropic material are developed in a power series in inverse distance from the point of application of the force. The breakdown of continuum theory on scales of order of the grain size is modeled with phenomenological parameters characterizing the strengths of induced multipoles near the point of application of the external force. We find that the data of Geng et al. on isotropic and hexagonal packings of photoelastic grains can be fit within this framework. Fitting the hexagonal packings requires a choice of elastic coefficients with hexagonal anisotropy stronger than that of a simple ball and spring model. For both the isotropic and hexagonal cases, induced dipole and quadrupole terms produce propagation of stresses away from the vertical direction over short distances. The scale over which such propagation occurs is significantly enhanced by the nonlinearities that generate hexagonal anisotropy.

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