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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik
DY 29: Posters II
DY 29.53: Poster
Thursday, March 29, 2012, 17:00–19:00, Poster A
multiple shear band formation in granular materials — robabeh moosavi1, •reza shaebani2, maniya maleki1, janos torok2, and dietrich wolf2 — 1Department of Physics, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan 45137-66731, Iran — 2Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen, 47048 Duisburg, Germany
We present numerical and experimental evidences for multiple shear band formation in sheared granular materials. A modified Couette cell with a split bottom near the outer cylinder is made rough by gluing glass beads on all boundaries. The cell is filled with the same beads and sheared by slowly rotating the inner cylinder and the attached bottom disk. A wide shear band is mostly observed at the free surface of the material. However, depending on the filling height and grain size, simultaneous shear bands may form near the confining walls and in the middle of the system. By minimizing the rate of energy dissipation, we numerically find similar velocity profiles for intermediate filling heights and relatively large grain sizes.