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Journal Articles European Physical Journal E: Soft matter and biological physics Year : 2008

Short-time dynamics of a packing of polyhedral grains under horizontal vibrations

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We analyze the dynamics of a 3D granular packing composed of particles of irregular polyhedral shape confined inside a rectangular box with a retaining wall sub jected to horizontal harmonic forcing. The simulations are performed by means of the contact dynamics method for a broad set of loading parameters. We explore the vibrational dynamics of the packing, the evolution of solid fraction and the scaling of dy- namics with the loading parameters. We show that the motion of the retaining wall is strongly anharmonic as a result of jamming and grain rearrangements. It is found that the mean particle displacement scales with inverse square of frequency, the inverse of the force amplitude and the square of gravity. The short- time compaction rate grows in proportion to frequency up to a characteristic frequency, corresponding to collective particle rearrangements between equilibrium states, and then it declines in inverse proportion to frequency.
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hal-00185822 , version 1 (07-11-2007)

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Emilien Azéma, Farhang Radjai, Robert Peyroux, Vincent Richefeu, Gilles Saussine. Short-time dynamics of a packing of polyhedral grains under horizontal vibrations. European Physical Journal E: Soft matter and biological physics, 2008, 26 (3), pp.327-335. ⟨10.1140/epje/i2007-10331-0⟩. ⟨hal-00185822⟩
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