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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