Static Friction Phenomena in Granular Materials: Coulomb Law vs. Particle Geometry

Preprint

14 September 1993

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-lat/9309006

Abstract

The static as well as the dynamic behaviour of granular material are determined by dynamic {\it and} static friction. There are well known methods to include static friction in molecular dynamics simulations using scarcely understood forces. We propose an Ansatz based on the geometrical shape of nonspherical particles which does not involve an explicit expression for static friction. It is shown that the simulations based on this model are close to experimental results.

Keywords

FRICTION PHENOMENA
MOLECULAR DYNAMICS
PARTICLE GEOMETRY
GRANULAR MATERIAL
STATIC FRICTION
COULOMB LAW

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Version 1, 1993-09-14, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 71 (24), 3963.

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