Stress fluctuations in a 2D granular Couette experiment: A continuous transition

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Howell, D [1 ]
Behringer, RP
Veje, C
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[1] Duke Univ, Dept Phys, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[2] Duke Univ, Ctr Nonlinear & Complex Syst, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[3] Niels Bohr Inst, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.5241
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O4 [物理学];
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Experiments on a slowly sheared 2D granular material show a continuous transition as the packing fraction gamma passes through gamma(c) similar or equal to 0.776. The mean stress, <(sigma)over bar>, plays the role of an order parameter. As gamma --> gamma(c) from above, (1) the compressibility becomes large, (2) a slowing down of the mean velocity occurs, (3) the force distributions change, and (4) the network of stress chains changes from intermittent long radial chains near gamma(c) to a tangled dense network for larger gamma.
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