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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 41: Poster - Pattern/ Nonlinear Dyn./ Fluids/ Granular/ Critical Phen.

DY 41.31: Poster

Thursday, April 3, 2014, 17:00–19:00, P3

Structural and mechanical properties of random packings of spherocylinders: a simulation study — •Pascal Wieland and Claus Heussinger — Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Institut für Theoretische Physik

An energy-minimization technique is developed to study random packings of soft spherocylinders in the vicinity of the jamming point.

We are interested in structural and mechanical properties as a function of the aspect ratio of the cylinders. In particular, we determine the average number of inter-particle contacts as well as their types (side-side, tip-side, tip-tip).

The simulation data is compared with experimental results obtained from x-ray tomography of spaghetti packings (in collaboration with C. Lewandowski and M. Schröter, also see their contribution).