Contact of Viscoelastic Spheres

2002/03/22 by Thomas Schwager, Thorsten Poeschel
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #cond-mat.stat-mech

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published as in: D.E.Wolf and P.Grassberger (eds.): "Friction, Arching and Contact Dynamics", World Scientific (1997), p. 293 · 7 pages, 3 figures

arxiv created 2002/03/22 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

In a recent paper an implicit equation for contacting viscoelastic spheres was derived (Brilliantov et al. PRE 53, 5382 (1996)). Integrating this equation it can be shown that the coefficient of normal restitution depends on the impact velocity as 1-ε∼ g^1/5.

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