| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 140, 2017
Powders and Grains 2017 – 8th International Conference on Micromechanics on Granular Media
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| Article Number | 03058 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Granular flow | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714003058 | |
| Published online | 30 June 2017 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714003058
Fluid-solid transition in unsteady shearing flows
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
* e-mail: dalila.vescovi@polimi.it
Published online: 30 June 2017
This paper focuses on the mechanical behaviour of granular systems under shearing, unsteady conditions. The results of numerical simulations of time evolving, homogeneous, shear flows of an assembly of frictional spheres, under constant volume conditions are illustrated. Simulations have been performed considering three volume fractions corresponding to fluid, solid and near-to-critical conditions at steady state. The three systems follow very different evolutionary paths, in terms of pressure, coordination number and stress ratio. Fluid-like and solid-like systems exhibit large and small fluctuations, respectively, in those quantities. A critical value of the coordination number seems to govern the transition from fluid to solid.
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