| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 249, 2021
Powders & Grains 2021 – 9th International Conference on Micromechanics on Granular Media
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| Article Number | 15004 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Miscellaneous | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202124915004 | |
| Published online | 07 June 2021 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202124915004
Patterns formed by chains of magnetic beads
1
Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Campus do Pici, 60455-760 Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
2
PMMH, ESPCI, CNRS UMR 7636, 7 quai St. Bernard, 75005 Paris, France
* e-mail: daniloborges@fisica.ufc.br
** e-mail: hans@fisica.ufc.br
*** e-mail: carmona@fisica.ufc.br
**** e-mail: soares@fisica.ufc.br
† e-mail: ascanio@fisica.ufc.br
Published online: 7 June 2021
Magnetic beads attract each other forming rather stable chains. We consider such chains formed by magnetic beads and push them into a Hele-Shaw cell either from the boundary or from the center. When such a chain is pushed into a cavity, it bends and folds spontaneously forming interesting unreported patterns. These patterns are self-similar and an effective fractal dimension can be defined. As found experimentally and with numerical simulations, the numbers of beads, loops and contacts follow power laws as a function of packing fraction and, depending on the injection procedure, even energetically less favorable triangular configurations can be stabilized.
A video is available at https://doi.org/10.48448/e18b-6663
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