Contact forces in regular 3D granular pile
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2015-06-25 v1
Abstract
We present exact results for the contact forces in a three dimensional static piling of identical, stiff and frictionless spheres. The pile studied is a pyramid of equilateral triangular base (``stack of cannonballs'') with a FCC (face centered cubic) structure. We show in particular that, as for the two dimensional case, the pressure on the base of such a pile is uniform.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9810178,
title = {Contact forces in regular 3D granular pile},
author = {G. Oron and H. J. Herrmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9810178},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
10 pages, 5 figures