Localizing energy in granular materials
Computational Physics
2016-01-13 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
A device for absorbing and storing short duration impulses in an initially uncompressed one-dimensional granular chain is presented. Simply stated, short regions of sufficiently soft grains are embedded in a hard granular chain. These grains exhibit long-lived standing waves of predictable frequencies regardless of the timing of the arrival of solitary waves from the larger matrix. We explore the origins, symmetry, and energy content of the soft region and its intrinsic modes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1601.02656,
title = {Localizing energy in granular materials},
author = {Michelle A. Przedborski and Thad A. Harroun and Surajit Sen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.02656},
year = {2016}
}