Breaking Arches with Vibrations: The Role of Defects

[en] We present experimental and numerical results regarding the stability of arches against external vibrations. Two-dimensional strings of mutually stabilizing grains are geometrically analyzed and subsequently submitted to a periodic forcing at fixed frequency and increasing amplitude. The main factor that determines the granular arch resistance against vibrations is the maximum angle among those formed between any particle of the arch and its two neighbors: the higher the maximum angle is, the easier it is to break the arch. On the basis of an analysis of the forces, a simple explanation is given for this dependence. From this, interesting information can be extracted about the expected magnitudes of normal forces and friction coefficients of the particles composing the arches.

Disciplines :

Physics

Author, co-author :

Lozano, Celia

Lumay, Geoffroy ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de physique > Physique statistique

Zuriguel, Iker

Hidalgo, R.C.

Garcimartín, Angel

Language :

English

Title :

Breaking Arches with Vibrations: The Role of Defects

Publication date :

2012

Journal title :

Physical Review Letters

ISSN :

0031-9007

eISSN :

1079-7114

Publisher :

American Physical Society, Ridge, United States - New York

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