Random bearings and their stability
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Self-similar space-filling bearings have been proposed some time ago as models for the motion of tectonic plates and appearance of seismic gaps. These models have two features which, however, seem unrealistic, namely, high symmetry in the arrangement of the particles, and lack of a lower cutoff in the size of the particles. In this work, an algorithm for generating random bearings in both two and three dimensions is presented. Introducing a lower cutoff for the sizes of the particles, the instabilities of the bearing under an external force such as gravity are studied.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0508219,
title = {Random bearings and their stability},
author = {R. Mahmoodi Baram and H. J. Herrmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0508219},
year = {2007}
}
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