Unjamming of Granular Packings due to Local Perturbations: Stability and Decay of Displacements

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2007-05-17

arxiv.org/abs/0705.2513v2

Phys. Rev. E 76, 030301(R) (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.76.030301

We study the mechanical response generated by local deformations in jammed packings of rigid disks. Based on discrete element simulations we determine the critical force of the local perturbation that is needed to break the mechanical equilibrium and examine the generated displacement field. Displacements decay as a power law of the distance from the perturbation point. The decay exponent and the critical force exhibit nontrivial dependence on the friction: Both quantities are nonmonotonic and have a sharp maximum at the friction coefficient 0.1. We find that the mechanical response properties are closely related to the problem of force-indeterminacy where similar nonmonotonic behavior was observed previously. We establish direct connection between the critical force and the ensemble of static force networks.

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