Publications [#303630] of Robert P. Behringer

Papers Published
  1. Behringer, RP; Bi, D; Chakraborty, B; Henkes, S; Hartley, RR, Why do granular materials stiffen with shear rate? Test of novel stress-based statistics., Physical Review Letters, vol. 101 no. 26 (December, 2008), pp. 268301 [19437678], [doi] .

    Abstract:
    Recent experiments exhibit a rate dependence for granular shear such that the stress grows linearly in the logarithm of the shear rate, gamma. Assuming a generalized activated process mechanism, we show that these observations are consistent with a recent proposal for a stress-based statistical ensemble. By contrast, predictions for rate dependence using conventional energy-based statistical mechanics to describe activated processes, predicts a rate dependence of (ln(gamma))(1/2).

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