A discrete packing model of granular material confined in a vertical column

DOI10.1504/IJCSM.2020.106696MaRDI QIDQ2224432zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Qinghai Jiang, Kai Wu, Yu Sun, Xin Xie, Zhengyu Yang

Publication date 3 February 2021

Published in International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01001

zbMATH Keywords

frictional contactsaturation pressuresilo effecttransmission rule

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Granularity (74E20) Friction in solid mechanics (74M10) Contact in solid mechanics (74M15)

Abstract: The transmission rules of interparticle forces between granular particles were analyzed, and a discrete packing model was proposed to calculate the static pressure at the bottom of granular material confined in a vertical column. The mechanical analysis and numerical simulation results indicate that the silo effect is caused by the frictional contacts between border particles and inner walls, the static pressure at the bottom depends on the external load initially, and then tends to a saturation pressure (Pn) in an exponential form. The saturation pressure (Pn) is positive linear related to the container radius (R) with the same granular matter and stacking manner. The saturation pressure (Pn) is directly proportional to the particle size (ra), and the increasing or decreasing characteristic depends on the frictional property of inner walls, the friction and stacking angle of grains. At last, the predictions of the aforementioned model are compared with the experimental results from the literature, and good agreement is achieved.

Review text

Summary: In this paper, we analysed the transmission rules of interparticle forces between granular particles, based on which, we then proposed a discrete packing model to calculate the static pressure at the bottom of granular material confined in a vertical column. Our mechanical analysis and numerical simulation results indicate that the silo effect is caused by the frictional contacts between border particles and inner walls, the static pressure at the bottom depends on the external load initially, and then tends to a saturation pressure (\(P_n\)) in an exponential form. The saturation pressure is positive linear related to the container radius (\(R\)) with the same granular matter and stacking manner. The saturation pressure is directly proportional to the particle size (\(r_a\)), and the increasing or decreasing characteristic depends on the frictional property of inner walls, the friction and stacking angle of grains. Finally, we compared the predictions of the aforementioned model with the experimental results from the literature, and we observed that good agreement is achieved.

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