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V Tournat1, V Zaitsev, V Gusev
1Université du Maine, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 09, France.
Abstract:
Rectification (demodulation) of high-frequency shear acoustic bursts is applied to probe the distribution of contact forces in 3D granular media. Symmetry principles allow for rectification of the shear waves only with their conversion into longitudinal mode. The rectification is due to nonlinear dynamic dilatancy, which is found to follow a quadratic or Hertzian power law in the shear wave amplitude. Evidence is given that a significant portion of weak contact forces is localized below 10(-2) of the mean force-a range previously inaccessible by experiment. Strong anisotropy of nonlinearity for shear waves with different polarization is observed.
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