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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 108, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.108302
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- NSF [DMR-0820054]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [820054] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Random packings of granular chains are presented as a model system to investigate the contribution of entanglements to strain stiffening. The chain packings are sheared in uniaxial compression experiments. For short chain lengths, these packings yield when the shear stress exceeds the scale of the confining pressure, similar to granular packings of unconnected particles. In contrast, packings of chains which are long enough to form loops exhibit strain stiffening, in which the effective stiffness of the material increases with strain, similar to many polymer materials. The latter packings can sustain stresses orders-of-magnitude greater than the confining pressure, and do not yield until the chain links break. X-ray tomography measurements reveal that the strain-stiffening packings contain system-spanning clusters of entangled chains.
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