Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2003-08-27
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
5 pages including 6 color figures
Scientific paper
We explore the effect of stacking fault defects on the transmission of forces in three-dimensional face-centered-cubic granular crystals. An external force is applied to a small area at the top surface of a crystalline packing of granular beads containing one or two stacking faults at various depths. The response forces at the bottom surface are measured and found to correspond to predictions based on vector force balance within the geometry of the defects. We identify the elementary stacking fault as a boundary between two pure face-centered-cubic crystals with different stacking orders. Other stacking faults produce response force patterns that can be viewed as resulting from repetitions of this basic defect. As the number of stacking faults increases, the intensity pattern evolves toward that of an hexagonal-close-packed crystal. This leads to the conclusion that the force pattern of that crystal structure crystal can be viewed as the extreme limit of a face-centered-cubic crystal with a stacking fault at every layer.
Jaeger Heinrich M.
Mueggenburg Nathan W.
Nagel Sidney R.
Spannuth Melissa J.
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