Soliton Attenuation and Emergent Hydrodynamics in Fragile Matter
Disordered packings of soft grains are fragile mechanical systems that lose rigidity upon lowering the external pressure toward zero. At zero pressure, we find that any infinitesimal strain impulse propagates initially as a nonlinear solitary wave progressively attenuated by disorder. We demonstrate...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2014-03-01
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| Series: | Physical Review X |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.4.011045 |