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Discontinuous rigidity transition associated with shear jamming in granular simulations

Soft Condensed Matter 2023-01-31 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We investigate the rigidity transition associated with shear jamming in frictionless, as well as frictional, disk packings in the quasi-static regime and at low shear rates. For frictionless disks, the transition is under quasistatic shear is discontinuous, with an instantaneous emergence of a system spanning rigid cluster at the jamming transition. For frictional systems, the transition appears continuous for finite shear rates, but becomes sharper for lower shear rates. In the quasi-static limit, it is discontinuous as in the frictionless case. Thus, our results show that the rigidity transition associated with shear jamming is discontinuous, as demonstrated in a past for isotropic jamming of frictionless particles, and therefore a unifying feature of the jamming transition in general.

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@article{arxiv.2301.12179,
  title  = {Discontinuous rigidity transition associated with shear jamming in granular simulations},
  author = {Varghese Babu and H. A Vinutha and Dapeng Bi and Srikanth Sastry},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.12179},
  year   = {2023}
}
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