Wide shear zones and the spot model: Implications from the split-bottom geometry

Details Wide shear zones and the spot model: Implications from the split-bottom geometry Wide shear zones and the spot model: Implications from the split-bottom geometry

2008-12-08

arxiv.org/abs/0812.1483v1

Eur. Phys. J. E 28, 73-78 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

6 pages, 6 figures, to be published in EPJE

Scientific paper

10.1140/epje/i2008-10418-0

The spot model has been developed by Bazant and co-workers to describe quasistatic granular flows. It assumes that granular flow is caused by the opposing flow of so-called spots of excess free volume, with spots moving along the slip lines of Mohr-Coulomb plasticity. The model is two-dimensional and has been successfully applied to a number of different geometries. In this paper we investigate whether the spot model in its simplest form can describe the wide shear zones observed in experiments and simulations of a Couette cell with split bottom. We give a general argument that is independent of the particular description of the stresses, but which shows that the present formulation of the spot model in which diffusion and drift terms are postulated to balance on length scales of order of the spot diameter, i.e. of order 3-5 grain diameters, is difficult to reconcile with the observed wide shear zones. We also discuss the implications for the spot model of co-axiality of the stress and strain rate tensors found in these wide shear flows, and point to possible extensions of the model that might allow one to account for the existence of wide shear zones.

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