Incipient failure in sandpile models
Condensed Matter
2015-06-25 v1
Abstract
Elastoplastic and constitutive equation theories are two approaches based on very different assumptions for creating a continuum theory for the stress distributions in a static sandpile. Both models produce the same surprising prediction that in a two dimensional granular pile constructed at its angle of repose, the outside wedge will be on the verge of failure. We show how these predictions can be tested experimentally.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9812068,
title = {Incipient failure in sandpile models},
author = {O. Narayan and S. R. Nagel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9812068},
year = {2015}
}
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5 pages, 1 figure