Ultrastable shear jammed granular material

• Main Authors: Zhao, Yiqiu, Zhao, Yuchen, Wang, Dong, Zheng, Hu, Chakraborty, Bulbul, Socolar, Joshua E. S.
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Granular Materials; Cyclic Shear
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165030
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Dry granular materials such as sand, gravel, pills, or agricultural grains, can become rigid when compressed or sheared. At low density, one can distort the shape of a container of granular material without encountering any resistance. Under isotropic compression, the material will reach a certai...