Journal
JOURNAL OF MECHANICS
Volume 38, Issue -, Pages 367-375Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jom/ufac032
Keywords
abrasion; sheared granular flow; shear stress; internal friction angles; wall friction angles
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- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
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Experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of rapid shear flow on the properties of granular particles, using particles from the food industry and quartz grains. It was found that shear flow resulted in changes in surface roughness and subsequently affected the internal and wall friction angles. This highlights the importance of considering roughness changes in theoretical descriptions of granular flows.
Experiments were performed in an Couette ring shear cell with particles from the food industry of nearly spherical geometry and nominal diameters between 2.0 and 6.7 mm and with quartz grains with 2.1 to 3.3 mm diameter to examine whether rapid shear flow would give rise to an appreciable change in the granular properties. In particular, it was suspected that surface roughness would change during shearing and lead to changes in the values of the internal and wall friction angles. Measuring these angles corroborated the supposition that abrasion of the particles reduced their frictional resistance, both via the internal and wall friction angles. This demonstrates that roughness changes may occur in granular flows and should in those situations not be ignored in the theoretical descriptions.
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