Force Distributions in Dense Two-Dimensional Granular Systems.

Relying on contact dynamics simulations, we study the statistical distribution of contact forces inside a confined packing of circular rigid disks with solid friction. We find the following: (1) The number of normal and tangential forces lower than their respective mean value decays as a power law. (2) The number of normal and tangential forces higher than their respective mean value decays exponentially. (3) The ratio of friction to normal force is uniformly distributed and is uncorrelated with normal force. (4) When normalized with respect to their mean values, these distributions are independent of sample size and particle size distribution.

• Publication year

  1996

• Venue

  Physical Review Letters

• Publication date

  1996-07-08

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics

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  DOI 10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.77.274PMID 10062410
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