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Granular Materials

Explore the characteristics and phenomena of granular materials, from microscopic scales to macroscopic behavior. Discover the unique challenges and applications of studying granular systems in various fields such as physics and engineering.

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Granular Materials

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  1. Granular Materials R. Behringer Duke University Durham, NC, USA

  2. Outline • Overview • What’s a granular material? • Numbers, sizes and scales • Granular phases • Features of granular phases • Why study granular materials? • Special Phenomena • Open challenges—what we don’t know

  3. Issues/ideas for granular gases • Kinetic theory • Hydrodynamics • Clustering and collapse • Simulations • Experiments

  4. Issues/ideas for dense granular systems • Friction and dilatancy • Force chains • Janssen model • Constant flow from a hopper • Forces under sandpiles • Texture

  5. Models for static force transmission • Lattice models: Q-model, 3-leg, elastic • Continuum limits of LM’s • Classical continuum models • Summary of predictions

  6. Experimental tests of force transmission • Order/disorder • Friction • Vector nature of force transmission • Textured systems • So where do we stand?

  7. Force fluctuations in dense systems • Force chains • Fragility • Anisotropy

  8. Transitions • Jamming • Percolation • Relation to other phenomena—e.g. glasses • Clustering (see gases) • Fluidization • Subharmonic Instabilities (shaken systems) • Stick-slip

  9. “Classical” systems • Shaking (convection, waves…) • Avalanches • Rotating flows • Hoppers and bunkers • Shearing • Mixing and segregation

  10. Special techniques • Discrete element models (DEM or MD) • Lattice models • Special experimental techniques • NMR • Photoelasticity • “Carbon paper”

  11. What is a granular material? • Large number of individual solid particles • Classical interactions between particles • Inter-particle forces only during contact • Interaction forces are dissipative • Friction, restitutional losses from collisions • Interaction forces are dissipative • A-thermal—kBT << Etypical ~ mgd • Other effects from surrounding fluid, charging may occur

  12. Numbers, Sizes and Scales • Sizes: 1m < d < 100m– powders -100m < d , 0.5cm—grains d > 0.5 cm—pebbles, rocks, boulders… • Size range of phenomena—packed powers (pills– mm to mm • A box of cereal—mm to 10 cm • Grains in a silo—mm to 10’s of m • Sahara desert—mm to many km • Rings of Saturn, intergalactic dust clouds—up to 1020m

  13. Granular Phases and Statistical Properties • Qualitative similarity of fluid, gas and solid states for granular and molecular systems • Difficult question: how do granular phase changes occur? • Open question: what are the statistical properties of granular systems? • Caveat: No true thermodynamic temperature—far from equilibrium • Various possible granular ‘temperatures’ proposed

  14. Distinguishing properties of phases • Solids resist shear • Fluids are viscous, i.e. shear stresses scale with the velocity gradients • Gases are also viscous, have lower densities than fluids, and have Maxwell- Boltzmann-like distributions for velocities

  15. Properties of granular gases • Characterized by pair-wise grain collisions • Kinetic theory works reasonably well • Velocity distributions are modified M-B • Gases can only persist with continuous energy input • Subject to clustering instability • Models (may) show granular collapse

  16. Granular Clustering –(Luding and Herrmann)

  17. Properties of granular solids • Persistent contacts (contrast to collisional picture for gases) • Dense slow flows or static configurations • Force chains carry most of the force • Force chains lead to strong spatio-temporal fluctuations • Interlocking of grains leads to jamming, yield stress, dilation on shearing

  18. Example of Force Chains from a Couette Experiment

  19. Solids, continued • Dilation under shear (Reynolds) • Grains interact via friction (Coulomb) Note frictional indeterminacy history dependence • Persistent contacts may limit sampling of phase space • Conventionally modeled as continuum • Strong fluctuations raise questions of appropriate continuum limit

  20. Granular ‘phase’ transistions • Clustering in gases • Elastic to plastic (semi- ‘fluid’) in dense systems—jamming • Jamming and fragility • Note: gravity typically compacts flows—many states not easily accessible on earth

  21. Do granular materials flow like water? • Example: sand flowing from a hopper: • Mass flow, M, independent of fill height • M ~ Da a ~ 2.5 to 3.0 • Why—force chains, jamming…

  22. Visualization in 2D by photoelasticity (more later)

  23. Note: method of pouring matters for the final heap (History dependence)

  24. Mass flow rate vs. hopper opening diameter

  25. Simple argument to predict flow rate • M = rV D2 • V ~ (gD)1/2 • M ~ D5/2.

  26. Why study granular materials? • Fundamental statistical and dynamical challenges • Related to broader class of systems • e.g. foams, colloids, glasses • Important applications: • Coal and grain handling • Chemical processing • Pharmaceuticals • Xerography • Mixing • Avalanche phenomena • Earthquakes and mudslides

  27. Some technical ‘problems’

  28. Close to home—about a mile from the Duke University Campus

  29. Interesting phenomena • Pattern formation • In shaken systems • Hopper flows • Mixing/segregation • Clustering—granular gases • Avalanches • Rotating flows • Granular convection • Jamming/unjamming

  30. Applications • Significant contribution to economy (~1$ trillion per year (?) – in US) • Granular industrial facilities operate below design—large financial losses result • Large losses due to avalanches and mudslides

  31. Friction: Granular and otherwise • Two parallel/intertwined concepts: • ‘Ordinary’ friction • Granular friction • Both referenced to Coulomb’s original work • Mohr-Coulomb friction.

  32. C. A. Coulomb, Acad. Roy. Sci. Mem. Phys. Divers Savants7, 343 (1773)

  33. Ordinary Solid Friction

  34. e. g. block on plane

  35. Indeterminacy of frictional contacts

  36. Hertz-Mindlin contact forces

  37. Reynolds Dilatancy

  38. Example of Reynolds dilation in before and after images from a shear experiment

  39. Microscopic origin of stresses, Fabric, Anisotropy • Fabric tensor • Microscopic origin of stress tensor • Shape effects–

  40. Fabric and fragility (e.g. Cates et al. Chaos9, 511 (1999))

  41. Other effects leading to anisotropy

  42. Aligned force chains/contacts lead to texture and anisotropy

  43. Example—simple shear creates texture

  44. Force chains, Spatio-temporal fluctuations • What happens when dense materials deform? • Strong spatio-temporal fluctuations • Examples: hopper, 2d shear, sound. • Length scale/correlation questions

  45. Fluctuations during hopper flow

  46. Spectrum of stress time series

  47. Sound measurements (Liu and Nagel, PRL 68, 2301 (1992)

  48. 2D Shear Experiment—stress chains break and reform

  49. Example of stress chains: Couette shear (Bob Hartley)

  50. Closeup of sheared material (Bob Hartley)

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