Contact force measurements and stress-induced anisotropy in granular materials

By T. Majmudar, Robert P. Behringer. Nature, 2005

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Stress-induced anisotropy in granular materials: fabric, stiffness, and permeability (2015, background): “The most intensely loaded contacts are usually spatially arranged in columnar force chains that are more efficient in bearing stress along their direction of orientation [55,40].”
Effects of particle asphericity on the macro- and micro-mechanical behaviors of granular assemblies (2017, background): “Moreover, with an increasing asphericity η, the PDF decreases for weakly mobilized contacts while the PDF increases for strongly mobilized contacts.”
Evolution of b-value during the seismic cycle: Insights from laboratory experiments on simulated faults (2018, background): “Such stick/slips are often described in terms of formation and breakage of force chains during loading and creeping portions of the seismic cycle respectively (Nasuno et al., 1997, 1998; Mair et al., 2002; Majmudar and Behringer, 2005; Daniels and Hayman, 2008; Johnson et al., 2008).”
Edwards Statistical Mechanics for Jammed Granular Matter (2016, result): “Although a faster than exponential decay has also been observed in experiments (Majmudar and Behringer, 2005) and simulations (van Eerd et al.”
A constitutive model with microstructure evolution for flow of rate-independent granular materials (2011, methodology): “More recent experiments (Utter & Behringer 2004; Majmudar & Behringer 2005) and discrete element method (DEM) simulations (Luding 2004, 2005; Aarons, Sun & Sundaresan 2009) further revealed that stress evolution is correlated to microstructure rearrangement during unsteady flow.”
Particle shape effects on fabric of granular random packing (2017, background): “Nevertheless, it is challenging to characterize the contact network due to its spatial inhomogeneity [67,68].”
Influence of particle shape on sheared dense granular media (2006, methodology): “The anisotropic network of contact forces in a granular packing subjected to shear conditions has been recently investigated by Majmudar and Behringer [18] in a two dimensional system of photoelastic discs and by Lätzel et al. [19] in discrete element simulations.”
Statistical properties of a 2D granular material subjected to cyclic shear (2009, neutral): “More details have been given elsewhere [17,18].”
The role of dilation and confining stresses in shear thickening of dense suspensions (2010, background): “Forces tend to be transmitted through jammed granular packings along concentrated paths called force chains (Cates et al., 1998) such that the distribution of forces is characterized by an exponential tail (Mueth et al., 1998; Majmudar and Behringer, 2005; Corwin et al., 2005).”