Shear jammed, fragile, and steady states in homogeneously strained granular materials

Abstract

We study the jamming phase diagram of sheared granular material using a novel Couette shear set-up with multi-ring bottom. The set-up uses small basal friction forces to apply a volume-conserving linear shear with no shear band to a granular system composed of frictional photoelastic discs. The set-up can generate arbitrarily large shear strain due to its circular geometry, and the shear direction can be reversed, allowing us to measure a feature that distinguishes shear-jammed from fragile states. We report systematic measurements of the stress, strain and contact network structure at phase boundaries that have been difficult to access by traditional experimental techniques, including the yield stress curve and the jamming curve close to ${\varphi }_{SJ}\approx 0.74$, the smallest packing fraction supporting a shear-jammed state. We observe fragile states created under large shear strain over a range of $\varphi <{\varphi }_{SJ}$. We also find a transition in the character of the quasi-static steady flow centered around ${\varphi }_{SJ}$ on the yield curve as a function of packing fraction. Near ${\varphi }_{SJ}$, the average contact number, fabric anisotropy, and non-rattler fraction all show a change of slope. Above ${\varphi }_F\approx 0.7$ the steady flow shows measurable deviations from the basal linear shear profile, and above ${\varphi }_c\approx 0.78$ the flow is localized in a shear band.

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