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cond-mat.stat-mech2009★ 5 cited
Random neighbour model for yielding
Fergal Dalton, Alberto Petri, Giorgio Pontuale
We introduce a model for yielding, inspired by fracture models and the failure of a sheared granular medium in which the applied shear is resisted by self-organized force chains. T…
cond-mat.soft2009★ 21 cited
Brownian motor in a granular medium
Riccardo Balzan, Fergal Dalton, Vittorio Loreto +2
In this work we experimentally study the behavior of a freely-rotating asymmetric probe immersed in a vibrated granular medium. For a wide variety of vibration conditions the probe…