Granular Elasticity without the Coulomb Condition
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
An self-contained elastic theory is derived which accounts both for mechanical yield and shear-induced volume dilatancy. Its two essential ingredients are thermodynamic instability and the dependence of the elastic moduli on compression.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0210557,
title = {Granular Elasticity without the Coulomb Condition},
author = {Yimin Jiang and Mario Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0210557},
year = {2009}
}
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4pages, 2 figures