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EUROPHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 76, Issue 2, Pages 318-324Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2005-10605-1
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We examine the binary collision assumption of hard-sphere kinetic theory in numerical simulations of sheared granular materials. For a wide range of densities and restitution coefficients we measure collisional and non-collisional contributions to the stress tensor and find that non-collisional effects dominate at large density and small restitution coefficient. In the regimes where the non-collisional contributions disappear, we test kinetic theory predictions for the pressure without any fitting parameters and find remarkable agreement. In the regimes where the non-collisional contributions become large, we observe groups of simultaneously interacting grains and determine the average multi-contact cluster size using measurements of spatial force correlations.
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