Stress Propagation and Arching in Static Sandpiles

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1996-07-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9607097v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

38 pages, 24 Postscript figures, LATEX, minor misspellings corrected, Journal de Physique I, Ref. Nr. 6.1125, accepted

Scientific paper

10.1051/jp1:1997126

We present a new approach to the modelling of stress propagation in static granular media, focussing on the conical sandpile constructed from a point source. We view the medium as consisting of cohesionless hard particles held up by static frictional forces; these are subject to microscopic indeterminacy which corresponds macroscopically to the fact that the equations of stress continuity are incomplete -- no strain variable can be defined. We propose that in general the continuity equations should be closed by means of a constitutive relation (or relations) between different components of the (mesoscopically averaged) stress tensor. The primary constitutive relation relates radial and vertical shear and normal stresses (in two dimensions, this is all one needs). We argue that the constitutive relation(s) should be local, and should encode the construction history of the pile: this history determines the organization of the grains at a mesoscopic scale, and thereby the local relationship between stresses. To the accuracy of published experiments, the pattern of stresses beneath a pile shows a scaling between piles of different heights (RSF scaling) which severely limits the form the constitutive relation can take ...

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