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A comparison between bridges and force-chains in photoelastic disk packing

Ling Zhang1, Shuxiao Cai, Zunpeng Hu

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.

Soft Matter
|March 22, 2014
PubMed
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Bridges in granular materials do not directly correspond to force-chains. Longer bridges are less likely to be part of the force-chain network, though both indicate packing properties.

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