We numerically solve the propagation of a shock wave in a chain of elastic beads with no restoring forces under traction (no-tension elasticity). We find a sequence of peaks of decreasing amplitude and velocity. Analyzing the main peak at different times we confirm a recently proposed scaling law for its decay.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9810179,
title = {Shock propagation in a granular chain},
author = {E. Hascoet and V. Loreto and H. J. Herrmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9810179},
year = {2015}
}