2009/10/10 by D. Kadau, Dirk Kadau, José S. Andrade +3
Engineering · Environmental Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Classical mechanics #Composite material #Contact dynamics #Dynamics (music) #Geology #Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics #Geotechnical engineering #Granular flow and fluidized beds #Granular material #Landslides and related hazards #Materials science #Mathematics #Mechanics #Physics #Shear (geology) #Suspension (topology) #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.1140/epje/i2009-10523-6
published as Eur. Phys. J. E 30, 275-281 (2009) · 7 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in EPJE
openalex publication_date 2009/10/10 · arxiv created 2009/11/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
A 2D contact dynamics model is proposed as a microscopic description of a collapsing suspension/soil to capture the essential physical processes underlying the dynamics of generation and collapse of the system. Our physical model is compared with real data obtained from in situ measurements performed with a natural collapsing/suspension soil. We show that the shear strength behavior of our collapsing suspension/soil model is very similar to the behavior of this collapsing suspension soil, for both the unperturbed and the perturbed phases of the material.