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Probing the effect of particle shape on the rigidity of jammed granular solids with sound speed measurements

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We describe a precise phase velocity measurement of longitudinal sound waves in granular solids under stress. We observe an important difference of the phase velocity between the packings of glass beads and sand particles, which is likely due to the interlocking effect caused by the particle shape. This effect can be captured by the contact coordination number using the effective medium theory. We also investigate the change of this coordination number in dry and wet granular packings, caused by cyclic loading or nonlinear sound transmission. These acoustic measurements show that the particle-level properties such as shape and friction significantly influence the response of jammed granular solids to external driving.

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This work was funded by LABEX WIFI (Laboratory of Excellence within the French Program Investments for the Future) under references ANR-10-LABX-24 and ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02 PSL*.

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  1. Institut Langevin, CNRS UMR 7587, ESPCI ParisTech, 1 rue Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France

    Siet van den Wildenberg, Yougu Yang & Xiaoping Jia

  2. Universit Paris-Est, 5 bd Descartes, 77454, Marne-la-Vallée Cedex 2, France

    Xiaoping Jia

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van den Wildenberg, S., Yang, Y. & Jia, X. Probing the effect of particle shape on the rigidity of jammed granular solids with sound speed measurements. Granular Matter 17, 419–426 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10035-015-0575-z

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