Incipient failure in sandpile models

Onuttom Narayan and Sidney R. Nagel

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1999, vol. 264, issue 1, 75-83

Abstract: Elastoplastic and constitutive equation theories are two approaches based on very different assumptions for creating a continuum theory for the stress distributions in a static sandpile. Both models produce the same surprising prediction that in a two-dimensional granular pile constructed at its angle of repose, the outside wedge will be on the verge of failure. We show how these predictions can be tested experimentally.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00470-1

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