Thursday, December 20, 2012

1212.4659 (Jesica Benito et al.)

Stability of a granular layer on an inclined "fakir plane"    [PDF]

Jesica Benito, Yann Bertho, Irene Ippolito, Philippe Gondret
We present here experimental results on the effect of a forest of cylinder obstacles (nails) on the stability of a granular layer over a rough incline, in a so-called "fakir plane" configuration. The nail forest is found to increase the stability of the layer, the more for the densest array, and such an effect is recovered by a simple model taking into account the additional friction force exerted by the pillar forest onto the granular layer.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.4659

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