2 papers
cond-mat.soft2019
The influence of surface roughness on the rheology of immersed and dry frictional spheres
Franco Tapia, Olivier Pouliquen, Elisabeth Guazzelli
Pressure-imposed rheometry is used to examine the influence of surface roughness on the rheology of immersed and dry frictional spheres in the dense regime. The quasi-static value…
cond-mat.soft2005
Experimental evidence of shock mitigation in a Hertzian tapered chain
Francisco Melo, Stephane Job, Francisco Santibanez +1
We present an experimental study of the mechanical impulse propagation through a horizontal alignment of elastic spheres of progressively decreasing diameter , namely a tapere…