Stress transmission and isostatic states of non-rigid particulate systems

DOI10.1007/0-387-32153-5_10zbMATH Open1181.74024arXivcond-mat/0501700OpenAlexW1538436999MaRDI QIDQ3407201FDOQ3407201

Authors: Raphael Blumenfeld 

Publication date: 3 March 2010

Published in: Modeling of Soft Matter (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The isostaticity theory for stress transmission in macroscopic planar particulate assemblies is extended here to non-rigid particles. It is shown that, provided that the mean coordination number in $d$ dimensions is $d+1$, macroscopic systems can be mapped onto equivalent assemblies of perectly rigid particles that support the same stress field. The error in the stress field that the compliance introduces for finite systems is shown to decay with size as a power law. This leads to the conclusion that the isostatic state is not limited to infinitely rigid particles both in two and in three dimensions, and paves the way to an application of isostaticity theory to more general systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0501700

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zbMATH Keywords

compliancegranular systemsstress fieldisostatic systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Granularity (74E20)

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