Column collapse of granular rods.

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys

Department of Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, USA.

Published: July 2010

We investigate the collapse of granular rodpiles as a function of particle (length/diameter) and pile (height/radius) aspect ratio. We find that, for all particle aspect ratios below 24, there exists a critical height Hl below which the pile never collapses, maintaining its initial shape as a solid, and a second height Hu above which the pile always collapses. Intermediate heights between Hl and Hu collapse with a probability that increases linearly with increasing height. The linear increase in probability is independent of particle length, width, or aspect ratio. When piles collapse, the runoff scales as a piecewise power law with pile height, with rf ~H(1.2±0.1) for pile heights below H(c) ≈ 0.74 and r(f) ≈ H(0.6±0.1) for taller piles.

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