Edwards thermodynamic framework controls density segregation in cyclically sheared granular materials
Abstract
Using X-ray tomography, we experimentally investigate granular segregation phenomena in a mixture of particles with different densities under quasi-static cyclic shear. We quantitatively characterize their height distributions at steady states by minimizing effective free energy based on a segregation temperature that captures the competition between the mixing entropy and gravitational potential energy. We find this temperature coincides with Edwards' compactivity within error under various pressures and cyclic shear amplitudes. Therefore, we find that granular segregation in quasi-static conditions can be fundamentally explained by an effective granular thermodynamic framework including real energy terms based on the Edwards statistical ensemble.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2407.10727,
title = {Edwards thermodynamic framework controls density segregation in cyclically sheared granular materials},
author = {Haiyang Lu and Houfei Yuan and Shuyang Zhang and Zhikun Zeng and Yi Xing and Jiazhao Xu and Xin Wang and Yujie Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.10727},
year = {2024}
}
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18 pages, 5 figures