We probe the rheology of weakly vibrated granular flows as function of flow rate, vibration strength and pressure by performing experiments in a vertically vibrated split-bottom shear cell. For slow flows, we establish the existence of a novel vibration dominated granular flow regime, where the driving stresses smoothly vanish as the driving rate is diminished. We distinguish three qualitatively different vibration dominated rheologies, most strikingly a regime where the shear stresses no longer are proportional to the pressure.
@article{arxiv.1312.0449,
title = {Rheology of Weakly Vibrated Granular Media},
author = {Geert H. Wortel and Joshua A. Dijksman and Martin van Hecke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.0449},
year = {2015}
}