Jamming in granular polymers

2009/12/31 by Lena Lopatina, L. M. Lopatina, C. J. Olson Reichhardt +2 · 1 citation
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Composite material #Condensed matter physics #Granular flow and fluidized beds #Granular material #Jamming #Material Dynamics and Properties #Materials science #Nonlinear Photonic Systems #Physics #Polymer #Statistical physics #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreve.84.011303

published as Phys. Rev. E 84, 011303 (2011) · 5 pages, 7 postscript figures, version to appear in PRE

arxiv created 2011/06/14 · openalex publication_date 2011/07/18 · arxiv updated 2015/05/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We examine the jamming transition in a two-dimensional granular polymer system using compressional simulations. The jamming density Φ(c) decreases with increasing length of the granular chain due to the formation of loop structures, in excellent agreement with recent experiments. The jamming density can be further reduced in mixtures of granular chains and granular rings, also as observed in experiment. We show that the nature of the jamming in granular polymer systems has pronounced differences from the jamming behavior observed for polydisperse two-dimensional disk systems at point J. This result provides further evidence that there is more than one type of jamming transition.

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