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Impacts and Ejecta in Natural Granular Material
Esteban Wright, Emau Argueta, Wolfgang Losert
With laboratory experiments we investigate the ejecta of low-velocity (~m/s) impacts into multi-scale granular media and compare them against ejecta from impacts into mono-scale me…
A Microstructural View of Burrowing with RoboClam
Kerstin Nordstrom, Dan Dorsch, Wolfgang Losert +1
RoboClam is a burrowing technology inspired by Ensis directus, the Atlantic razor clam. Atlantic razor clams should only be strong enough to dig a few centimeters into the soil, ye…
Granular Shear Flow in Varying Gravitational Environments
N. Murdoch, B. Rozitis, S. F. Green +3
Despite their very low surface gravities, asteroids exhibit a number of different geological processes involving granular matter. Understanding the response of this granular materi…
Granular Convection in Microgravity
N. Murdoch, B. Rozitis, K. Nordstrom +4
We investigate the role of gravity on convection in a dense granular shear flow. Using a microgravity modified Taylor-Couette shear cell under the conditions of parabolic flight mi…
Simulating regoliths in microgravity
N. Murdoch, B. Rozitis, S. F. Green +3
Despite their very low surface gravities, the surfaces of asteroids and comets are covered by granular materials - regolith - that can range from a fine dust to a gravel-like struc…
Granular Shear Flow Dynamics and Forces : Experiment and Continuum Theory
L. Bocquet, W. Losert, D. Schalk +2
We analyze the main features of granular shear flow through experimental measurements in a Couette geometry and a comparison to a locally Newtonian, continuum model of granular flo…