Deformation-driven diffusion and plastic flow in amorphous granular pillars

Wenbin Li, Jennifer M. Rieser, Andrea J. Liu, Douglas J. Durian, and Ju Li
Phys. Rev. E 91, 062212 – Published 24 June 2015
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Abstract

We report a combined experimental and simulation study of deformation-induced diffusion in compacted quasi-two-dimensional amorphous granular pillars, in which thermal fluctuations play a negligible role. The pillars, consisting of bidisperse cylindrical acetal plastic particles standing upright on a substrate, are deformed uniaxially and quasistatically by a rigid bar moving at a constant speed. The plastic flow and particle rearrangements in the pillars are characterized by computing the best-fit affine transformation strain and nonaffine displacement associated with each particle between two stages of deformation. The nonaffine displacement exhibits exponential crossover from ballistic to diffusive behavior with respect to the cumulative deviatoric strain, indicating that in athermal granular packings, the cumulative deviatoric strain plays the role of time in thermal systems and drives effective particle diffusion. We further study the size-dependent deformation of the granular pillars by simulation, and find that different-sized pillars follow self-similar shape evolution during deformation. In addition, the yield stress of the pillars increases linearly with pillar size. Formation of transient shear lines in the pillars during deformation becomes more evident as pillar size increases. The width of these elementary shear bands is about twice the diameter of a particle, and does not vary with pillar size.

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  • Received 29 January 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.062212

©2015 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Wenbin Li1, Jennifer M. Rieser2, Andrea J. Liu2, Douglas J. Durian2,*, and Ju Li1,3,†

  • 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
  • 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
  • 3Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

  • *djdurian@physics.upenn.edu
  • liju@mit.edu

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Vol. 91, Iss. 6 — June 2015

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