Discontinuous rigidity transition associated with shear jamming in granular simulations.

Varghese Babu, H A Vinutha, Dapeng Bi, Srikanth Sastry
Author Information
  1. Varghese Babu: Theoretical Sciences Unit and School of Advanced Materials, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Rachenahalli Lake Road, Bengaluru 560064, India. varghese@jncasr.ac.in.
  2. H A Vinutha: Department of Physics, Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. ORCID
  3. Dapeng Bi: Department of Physics, Northeastern University, MA 02115, USA. ORCID
  4. Srikanth Sastry: Theoretical Sciences Unit and School of Advanced Materials, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Rachenahalli Lake Road, Bengaluru 560064, India. varghese@jncasr.ac.in. ORCID

Abstract

We investigate the rigidity transition associated with shear jamming in frictionless, as well as frictional, disk packings in the quasi-static regime and at low shear rates. For frictionless disks, the transition under quasi-static shear is discontinuous, with an instantaneous emergence of a system spanning rigid clusters at the jamming transition. For frictional systems, the transition appears continuous for finite shear rates, but becomes sharper for lower shear rates. In the quasi-static limit, it is discontinuous as in the frictionless case. Thus, our results show that the rigidity transition associated with shear jamming is discontinuous, as demonstrated in the past for isotropic jamming of frictionless particles, and therefore a unifying feature of the jamming transition in general.

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