Dynamical Janssen effect on granular packings with moving walls

Yann Bertho (1) , Frédérique Giorgiutti-Dauphiné (1) , Jean-Pierre Hulin (1)

1 FAST - Fluides, automatique, systèmes thermiques

Apparent mass (Mapp) measurements at the bottom of granular packings inside a vertical tube in relative motion are reported. They demonstrate that Janssen's model is valid over a broad range of velocities v. The variability of the measurements is lower than for static packings and the theoretical exponential increase of Mapp with the height of the packing is precisely followed (the corresponding characteristic screening length is of the order of the tube diameter). The limiting apparent mass at large heights is independent of v and significantly lower than the static value.

Mots clés: granular; Janssen

Domaines: Matière Molle [cond-mat.soft]

Yann Bertho, Frédérique Giorgiutti-Dauphiné, Jean-Pierre Hulin. Dynamical Janssen effect on granular packings with moving walls. Physical Review Letters, 2003, 90 (14), pp.144301. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.144301⟩. ⟨hal-00192150⟩