Grain volume distribution alters the critical phenomena in complex granular systems
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| author | Man, Teng Lu, Yimin Wang, Zhongrong Huppert, Herbert Zaccone, Alessio Sun, Honglei |
| author_facet | Man, Teng Lu, Yimin Wang, Zhongrong Huppert, Herbert Zaccone, Alessio Sun, Honglei |
| contents | The grain size distribution (GSD) plays an important role in the mechanical properties of amorphous disordered systems and complex granular materials. Varying GSD causes segregation issues and alters critical behaviors. This work used the discrete element method (DEM) to investigate the rheological and critical behaviors of sheared granular flows with various GSDs. The results show that, while a unified rheological relation can be obtained, a characteristic length scale, which is associated with the contact probability and can be obtained from any GSD, is embedded within such a polydisperse disordered system. We further acquire a correlation function between critical solid fractions and dimensionless grain volume distributions. This work elucidates the effect of particle volumes on the rheology and micromechanics of dry granular systems and provides further insights in better incorporating the influence of other particle properties into a unified framework, which is helpful and critical for the corresponding engineering and geophysical problems. |
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| spellingShingle | Grain volume distribution alters the critical phenomena in complex granular systems Man, Teng Lu, Yimin Wang, Zhongrong Huppert, Herbert Zaccone, Alessio Sun, Honglei Soft Condensed Matter Computational Physics The grain size distribution (GSD) plays an important role in the mechanical properties of amorphous disordered systems and complex granular materials. Varying GSD causes segregation issues and alters critical behaviors. This work used the discrete element method (DEM) to investigate the rheological and critical behaviors of sheared granular flows with various GSDs. The results show that, while a unified rheological relation can be obtained, a characteristic length scale, which is associated with the contact probability and can be obtained from any GSD, is embedded within such a polydisperse disordered system. We further acquire a correlation function between critical solid fractions and dimensionless grain volume distributions. This work elucidates the effect of particle volumes on the rheology and micromechanics of dry granular systems and provides further insights in better incorporating the influence of other particle properties into a unified framework, which is helpful and critical for the corresponding engineering and geophysical problems. |
| title | Grain volume distribution alters the critical phenomena in complex granular systems |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Computational Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14797 |