Stress Isotropization in Weakly Jammed Granular Packings

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Main Authors: Benoist, Félix, Bouzid, Mehdi, Lenz, Martin
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Published: 2024
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author Benoist, Félix
Bouzid, Mehdi
Lenz, Martin
author_facet Benoist, Félix
Bouzid, Mehdi
Lenz, Martin
contents When sheared, granular media experience localized plastic events known as shear transformations which generate anisotropic internal stresses. Under strong confining pressure, the response of granular media to local force multipoles is essentially linear, resulting in quadrupolar propagated stresses. This can lead to additional plastic events along the direction of relative stress increase. Closer to the unjamming transition however, as the confining pressure and the shear modulus vanish, nonlinearities become relevant. Yet, the consequences of these nonlinearities on the stress response to plastic events remains poorly understood. We show with granular dynamics simulations that this brings about an isotropization of the propagated stresses, in agreement with a previously developed continuum elastic model. This could significantly modify the yielding transition of weakly-jammed amorphous media, which has been conceptualized as an avalanche of such plastic events.
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spellingShingle Stress Isotropization in Weakly Jammed Granular Packings
Benoist, Félix
Bouzid, Mehdi
Lenz, Martin
Soft Condensed Matter
When sheared, granular media experience localized plastic events known as shear transformations which generate anisotropic internal stresses. Under strong confining pressure, the response of granular media to local force multipoles is essentially linear, resulting in quadrupolar propagated stresses. This can lead to additional plastic events along the direction of relative stress increase. Closer to the unjamming transition however, as the confining pressure and the shear modulus vanish, nonlinearities become relevant. Yet, the consequences of these nonlinearities on the stress response to plastic events remains poorly understood. We show with granular dynamics simulations that this brings about an isotropization of the propagated stresses, in agreement with a previously developed continuum elastic model. This could significantly modify the yielding transition of weakly-jammed amorphous media, which has been conceptualized as an avalanche of such plastic events.
title Stress Isotropization in Weakly Jammed Granular Packings
topic Soft Condensed Matter
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18579