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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 75, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.010301
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We show that in slowly generated two-dimensional packings of frictional spheres, a significant fraction of the friction forces lie at the Coulomb threshold-for small pressure p and friction coefficient mu, about half of the contacts. Interpreting these contacts as constrained leads to a generalized concept of isostaticity, which relates the maximal fraction of fully mobilized contacts and contact number. For p -> 0, our frictional packings approximately satisfy this relation over the full range of mu. This is in agreement with a previous conjecture that gently built packings should be marginal solids at jamming. In addition, the contact numbers and packing densities scale with both p and mu.
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