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Powders and Grains 2013

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on

Micromechanics of Granular Media

Sydney, Australia

8-12 July 2013

Editors

AibingYu

Kejun Dong

Runyu YangUniversity of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Stefan LudingUniversiteitTwente, Enschede, Netherlands

All papers have been peer reviewed.

Sponsoring OrganizationsAssociation for the Study of the Micromechanics of Granular Media (AEMMG)University of New South Wales (UNSW)Curtin University (CU)UniversiteitTwente (UT)JMBC Research School for Fluid Mechanics, Netherlands

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Powders and Grains 2013

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Micromechanics of Granular Media

Table of Contents

Preface: Powders and Grains 2013

Aibing Yu

INVITED PAPERS

From nanoscale cohesion to macroscale entanglement: Opportunities for designing granularaggregate behavior by tailoring grain shape and interactions

Heinrich M. Jaeger, Marc Z. Miskin, and Scott R. Waitukaitis 3

From customized multiscale modeling to general mesoscience - Theprinciple ofcompromise

Jinghai Li 7

Jamming and shear for granular materials

R. P. Behringer, Joshua Dijksman, Jie Ren, Jie Zhang, Trushant Majmudar, Bulbul Chakraborty,Daipeng Bi, and Antoinette Tordesillas 12

Establishing predictive capabilities of DEM - Verification and validation for complex granular

processes

Jin Y. Ooi 20

The glass and jamming transitions in dense granular matterCorentin Coulais, Raphael Candelier, and Olivier Dauchot 25

Granular friction in a wide range of shear rates

Osamu Kuwano, Ryosuke Ando, and Takahiro Hatano 32

10,000 - A reason to study granular heat convection

I. Einav, P. Rognon, Y. Gan, T. Miller, and D. Griffani 38

Quasistatic behaviour of granular materials: Some things we learned from DEM studies

Jean-Noel Roux 46

Rheometry of dense granular materials: The crucial effects of gravity and confining walls

V. Shravan Kumar, Tejas Murthy, and Prabhu R. Nott 49

Stress- and rate-controlled granular rheologyYimin Jiang and Mario Liu 52

Identifying and following particle-to-particle contacts in real granular media: An experimentalchallenge

Gioacchino Viggiani, Edward Ando, Clara Jaquet, and Hugues Talbot 60

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A hierarchy of particle-size segregation models: From polydisperse mixtures to depth-averagedtheories

J. M.N.T. Gray 66

1. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES

1.1. Nano, Micro, and Irregular Particles

Shear alignment and orientational order of macroscopic rodlike grains

R. Stannarius, S. Wegner, B. Szabo, and T. Bbrzsonyi 74

Stability determination of steric-stabilized nanoparticles - Numerical and experimental analysisOlakunle Olatunji and Jtirgen Tomas 78

Multidimensionality in fluidized nanopowder agglomeratesLilian de Martin, Wim G. Bouwman, and J. Ruud van Ommen 82

Shear-induced failure in jammed nanoparticle assemblies

Ishan Srivastava, Kyle C. Smith, and Timothy S. Fisher 86

Tribo-electric charging particle in a shaker

Masayuki Imba, Toshiko Kanazawa, Junichi Ida, Hideo Yamamoto, Mojtaba Ghadiri, and Tatsuhsi

Matsuyama 90

Experimental and theoretical study of a micro-fiuidized bed

V. Zivkovic, M. N. Kashani, and M. J. Biggs 93

Two-phase nc-TiN/a-(C,CNx) nanocomposite films: A HRTEM and MC simulation study

J. Guo, Y. H. Lu, X. J. Hu, and Y. G. Shen,

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A DEM model for contact electrification of irregular shaped particlesChunlei Pei, Chuan-Yu Wu, Michael Adams, David England, Stephen Byard, and Harald Berchtold 101

Axial segregation of horizontally vibrated binary granular mixtures in an offset-Christmas tree

channel

Ashish Bhateja, Ishan Sharma, and Jayant K. Singh 105

Diffusion of light in two-dimensional granular materials

Zeinab Sadjadi and MirFaez Miri 109

Synergistic combination dry powders for inhaled antimicrobial therapyDesmond Heng, Sie Huey Lee, Jeanette Teo, Wai Kiong Ng, Hak-Kim Chan, and

Reginald B. H. Tan 113

Electrostatics effects in granular materials

Saurabh Sarkar and Bodhisattwa Chaudhuri 117

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The characterizations and electrochemical properties of lignosulfonate templates based

mesoporous NiO

Feng Chen, Hongfei Yao, Ping Fan, Jintao Yang, and Mingqiang Zhong 121

Influence of sintering additives and TiC on properties ofTiC/Si3N4 ceramics

Yong Jiang, Laner Wu, and Wenzhou Sun 125

Fabrication and characterisation of patterned magnetorheological elastomers

Weihua Li, Xianzhou Zhang, Tongfei Tian, and Weijia Wen 129

Study of shear-stiffened elastomers

Tongfei Tian, Weihua Li, Jie Ding, Gursel Alici, and Haiping Du 133

Preparation of y-AlON transparent ceramics by one-step method with high-activity A1203

powdersWenzhou Sun, Yuhong Chen, Laner Wu, and Yong Jiang 137

Agglomerating fluidization of nanoparticles in the vibration or magnetic field

Tao Zhou, Hao Duan, Hui Wang, Feng Zhang, Hiroyuki Kage, and Yoshihide Mawatari 141

1.2. Modelling and Simulation Techniques

Understanding multi-scale structural evolution in granular systems through gMEMS

David M. Walker and Antoinette Tordesillas 145

Event-drivenDEM of soft spheres

Thorsten Poschel and Patric Miiller 149

Multi-scale simulation of discrete systems with multi-scale supercomputerWei Ge and Jinghai Li 153

Scaling laws in granular flow and pedestrian flow

Shumiao Chen, Fernando Alonso-Marroquin, Jonathan Busch, Raul Cruz Hidalgo, Charmila

Sathianandan, Alvaro Ramirez-Gomez, and Peter Mora 157

Multiscale modelling ofpharmaceutical powders: Macroscopic behaviour predictionJonathan Loh, William Ketterhagen, and James Elliott 161

A parallel version of the contact dynamics method

Z. Shojaaee, M. R. Shaebani, L. Brendel, J. Torok, and D. E. Wolf 165

On the use ofgraphics processing units (GPUs) for molecular dynamics simulation of spherical

particlesR. C. Hidalgo, T. Kanzaki, F. Alonso-Marroquin, and S. Luding 169

A nonlinear dynamical systems modelling approach unveils chaotic dynamics in simulations of

large strain behaviour of a granular material under biaxial compressionMichael Small, David Walker, and Antoinette Tordesillas 173

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Particle-based simulation of hydraulic fracture and fluid/heat flow in geothermal reservoirs

Peter Mora, Yucang Wang, and Fernando Alonso-Marroquin 177

Uncertainty quantification and granular thermodynamicsJeffrey D. Picka 181

DEM simulation of particles of complex shapes using the multisphere method: Application for

additive manufacturingEric J. R. Parteli 185

Numerical simulation of suffusion phenomena through granular media

Francesco Federico, Andrea Montanaro, and Mauro Scienza 189

2. GEOMATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTIONS:

2.1. Theoretical

Directional plastic flow and fabric dependencies in granular materials

Barthelemy Harthong and Richard G. Wan 193

Granular mechanics of the critical state of coarse soils

Calixtro Yanqui 197

The influence of void ratio on small strain shear modulus of granular materials: A

micromechanical perspectiveXiaomin Xu, Yipik Cheng, and Dongsheng Ling 201

Mesh size effect in the simulation of powder geo-materialL. C Huang, C. Y. Zhou, Y. Cheng, and W. K. Li 205

Simulation on particle crushing oftailings material under high pressure

Hai-ming Liu, Yi-ming Liu, Chun-he Yang, and Jing Cao 209

Distinct element analyses of collapsible behaviour of structured loess under one-dimensional

compressionM. J. Jiang, T. Li, and H. J. Hu 213

Numerical simulation of rock failure process using improved rigid body spring methodChi Yao, Qinghui Jiang, Jianfu Shao, and Chuangbing Zhou 217

2.2. Numerical

Dynamic and impact contact mechanics of geologic materials: Grain-scale experiments and

modelingDavid M. Cole, Mark A. Hopkins, and Stephen A. Ketcham 221

DEM modeling ofpenetration test in static and dynamic conditions

Quoc Anh Tran, Bastien Chevalier, and Pierre Breul 225

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A new definition on critical state of granular media accounting for fabric anisotropy

Jidong Zhao and Ning Guo 229

Wave propagation in assemblies of cemented spheresT. Matthew Evans and Zhangwei Ning 233

Distinct element analyses of inclined cone penetration test in granular ground

Mingjing Jiang, Yongsheng Dai, Zhifu Shen, and Ning Zhang 237

Penetration strength of coarse granular materials from DEM simulations

Juan Carlos Quezada, Gilles Saussine, Pierre Breul, and Farhang Radjai 241

Modelling desiccation cracking in thin clay layer using three-dimensional discrete element

method

Jun Sima, Mingjing Jiang, and Chuangbing Zhou 245

Effects of granular soil micro-mechanics on the pressure-sinkage relationshipLiang Cui and Sawas Avramidis 249

Characterizing inclined loading capacity of a pile embedded in methane-hydrate-bearing marine

sediments

Fang Liu, Mingjing Jiang, Fangyuan Zhu, and Yu Xiao 253

On the physical meaning of equivalent skeleton void ratio for granular soil with fines

Bei-Bing Dai and Jun Yang 257

PFC2D simulation of thermally induced cracks in concrete specimensXinghong Liu, Xiaolin Chang, Wei Zhou, and Shuirong Li 261

Micro-characteristics of monodisperse and best-packing mixture samples under one dimensional

compressionN. H. Minh and Y. P. Cheng 265

Mechanical behavior modeling of sand-rubber chips mixtures using discrete element method

(DEM)Danial Rezazadeh Eidgahee and Ehsan Seyedi Hosseininia 269

Strength and fabric evolution of unsaturated granular materials by 3D DEM analyses

Mingjing Jiang and Zhifu Shen 273

Challenges of simulating undrained tests using the constant volume method in DEM

Kevin J. Hanley, Xin Huang, Catherine O'Sullivan, and Fiona Kwok 277

Effect of inter-particle rolling resistance on passive earth pressure against a translating rigidretaining wall

Mingjing Jiang, Jie He, Fang Liu, and Huaning Wang 281

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Feasible use ofparticle-flow virtual test for the mechanical properties mixed soil

Zhang Jia-ming, Ren Yong-qiang, Shao Xiao-quan, and Wang Gang 285

2.3. Experimental

Multi-phase mechanics and multi-scale interactions among soil-water-gas in tsunami disaster

Tatsuya Imase, Kenichi Maeda, Yoshimi Ito, and Mai Goto 289

Quantification of time-dependent microstructural change of a silty sand under load

M. Yusa and E. T. Bowman 293

Postmortem analysis of sand grain crushing from pile interface using X-ray tomographyI. Matias Silva, Gael Combe, Pierre Foray, Frederic Flin, and Bernard Lesaffre 297

Physical and mechanical properties of cement-treated granular soils with respect to geotechnical

applicationKimitoshi Hayano, Phan Huy Dong, and Yoshiyuki Morikawa 301

Optimum mixture design of granular materials reinforced by short fiber

Shigeaki Nozoe, Kenji Kaneko, and Yutaka Hashizume 305

CPT-based estimation of bearing and deformation indexes for TJ-l lunar soil simulant ground

Mingjing Jiang, Ning Zhang, Zhifu Shen, and Xiaofeng Wu 309

DEM simulation of footpads quasi-statically penetrating into granular groundChao Sun, Fang Liu, Mingjing Jiang, and Huaning Wang 313

3. GRANULAR SOLIDS

3.1. Packing, Jamming and Related Properties

Dynamical systems model and discrete element simulations of a tapped granular column

A. D. Rosato, D. Blackmore, X. M. Tricoche, K. Urban, and L. Zuo 317

Confined packings offrictionless spheres and polyhedraJean-Francois Camenen, Yannick Descantes, and Patrick Richard 321

Microstructural characteristics ofplanar granular solids

Takashi Matsushima and Raphael Blumenfeld 325

Statistical mechanics ofdry granular materials: Between fragile solid (jamming) and dry fluid

(rheology)Nicolas Rivier and Jean-Yves Fortin 329

Settlement statistics of a granular layer composed of polyhedral particlesJuan Carlos Quezada, Gilles Saussine, Pierre Breul, and Farhang Radjai 333

DEM simulation of experimental dense granular packingMaryam Hanifpour, Nicolas Francois, Mehdi Vaez Allaei, and Mohammad Saadatfar 337

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The theory of granular packings for coarse soils

Calixtro Yanqui 341

Analysis of the behavior of granular materials at a meso-scale

Ngoc-Son Nguyen, Helene Magoariec, and Bernard Cambou 345

Minkowski tensors and local structure metrics: Amorphous and crystalline sphere packingsG. E. Schroder-Turk, R. Schielein, S. C. Kapfer, F. M. Schaller, G. W. Delaney, T. Senden, M.

Saadatfar, T. Aste, and K. Mecke 349

Analysis of Voronoi clusters in the packing of uniform spheresC. C. Wang, K. J. Dong, and A. B. Yu 353

Discrete modelling ofthe packing of ellipsoidal particlesZongyan Zhou, Ruiping Zou, David Pinson, and Aibing Yu 357

The role of inter-grain friction in determining the mechanical and structural properties of

superellipsoid packings

Gary W. Delaney, James E. Hilton, Paul W. Cleary, and Claire Miller 361

Fast synchrotron X-ray tomography study ofthe rod packing structures

Xiaodan Zhang, Chengjie Xia, Haohua Sun, and Yujie Wang 365

Crystallisation in a granular material

N. Francois, M. Saadatfar, M. Hanifpour, R. Cruikshank, and A. Sheppard 369

A method for structural analysis of disordered particle systemsZ. A. Tian, K. J. Dong, and A. B. Yu 373

Tomographic analysis ofjammed ellipsoid packingsFabian M. Schaller, Max Neudecker, Mohammad Saadatfar, Gary Delaney, Klaus Mecke, Gerd E.

Schroder-Turk, and Matthias Schroter 377

Non-Gaussian behavior in jamming / unjamming transition in dense granular materials

A. P. F. Atman, E. Kolb, G. Combe, H. A. Paiva, and G. H. B. Martins 381

Granular jamming transitions for a robotic mechanism

Allen Jiang, Tomaso Aste, Prokar Dasgupta, Kaspar Althoefer, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara 385

3.2. Forces

Dynamic cone penetration tests in granular media: Determination of the tip's dynamic load-

penetration curve

E. Escobar, M. Benz, R. Gourves, and P. Breul 389

Critical-like features of a granular intruder

Benjamin D. Elwood and Leonardo E. Silbert 393

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Force-chain identification in quasi-2D granular systemsLing Zhang, Jun-Qi Wu, and Jie Zhang 397

Granular matter: A special buffer for impact load

Shunying Ji, Xiaodong Chen, Pengfei Li, and Ying Yan 401

Cushioning effect in highly polydisperse granular media

Charles Voivret 405

Experimental evidence and structural mechanics analysis of force chain buckling at the

microscale in a 2D polymeric granular layerAndrew B. Croll, Antoinette Tordesillas, David Carey, and Bekele Gurmessa 409

Force distribution/transmission in amorphous and crystalline packings ofspheres

Xizhong An and Fei Huang 413

A mechanistic analysis of bulk powder cakingG. Calvert, N. Curcic, and M. Ghadiri 417

Anisotropy of microstructure and force chains in granular materials

Xihua Chu, Lunlun Zhou, and Yuanjie Xu 421

Experimental investigations of micro-structural phenomena inside strain localisation in granularmaterials

Danuta Lesniewska and Magdalena Pietrzak 425

An attempt in assessing contact forces from a kinematic field

Vincent Richefeu, Gael Combe, and Raphael Maurin 429

Local elastic fields in granular solids

J. Boberski, L. Brendel, and D. E. Wolf 433

Cooperative dynamics of a group of intruders subsiding in granular media: A DEM studyCher Hui Goey and Chuan-Yu Wu 437

Non-contact measurement ofthe stress within granular materials via neutron diffraction

C. M. Wensrich, E. H. Kisi, V. Luzin, and O. Kirstein 441

Granular impact dynamics: Fluctuations at short time-scales

Abram H. Clark, Lou Kondic, and R. P. Behringer 445

3.3. Shear tests and analysis3.3.1. Experimental

Dilation, compression, and convection in granular shear experimentsNathan Beasley, Jacob Jantzi, Ryan Kinser, and Jeffrey S. Olafsen 449

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Experimental evidence of "Granulence"

G. Combe, V. Richefeu, G.Tiggiani, S. A. Hall, A. Tengattini, and A. P. F. Atman 453

Imaging soft sphere packings in a novel triaxial shear setupJoshua A. Dijksman, Hu Zheng, and Robert P. Behringer 457

TRACKER: A particle image tracking (PIT) technique dedicated to nonsmooth motions involved

in granular packingsGael Combe and Vincent Richefeu 461

Novel experimental apparatus for granular experiments on basal friction

Hu Zheng, Joshua A. Dijksman, and Robert P. Behringer 465

Measuring creep and stick-slip behavior in 2-dimensional photoelastic granularmedium

N. Sepulveda and R. P. Behringer 469

Experimental investigation of the Rowe's dilatancy law on an atypical granular medium from a

municipal solid waste incineration bottom ash

Frederic Becquart and Nor Edine Abriak 471

Experimental studies of precursors to failure in granular material

Antoine Le Bouil, Axelle Anion, and Jerome Crassous 475

Development ofa biaxial compression test apparatus for granular materials

Lian-Wei Zhang and Jian-Min Zhang 479

The stadium shear device: A novel apparatus for studying dense granular flows

Tom Miller, Pierre Rognon, and Itai Einav 483

3.3.2. Numerical

Prediction of bulk particle breakage due to naturally formed shear bands

Colin Hare and Mojtaba Ghadiri 487

Granular shear flows of flexible rod-like particlesY. Guo, J. Curtis, C. Wassgren, W. Ketterhagen, and B. Hancock 491

Study of some micro-structural phenomena in granular shear zones

Jan Kozicki, Jacek Tejchman, and Danuta Lesniewska ' 495

On liquid migration in sheared granular matter

R. Mani, D. Kadau, D. Or, and H. J. Herrmann 499

Constitutive relations ofjammed frictionless granular materials under oscillatory shear

Michio Otsuki and Hisao Hayakawa 503

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Minimum cut and shear bands

Antoinette Tordesillas, Andrew Cramer, and David M. Walker 507

Shear strength, force distributions and friction mobilization in sheared packings composed of

angular particlesEmilien Azema, Nicolas Estrada, and Farhang Radjai 511

Simulation of sheared, caking powderA. Weuster, L. Brendel, and D. E. Wolf 515

Shear strength and microstructure of 3D assemblies ofplaty particlesMauricio Boton, Emilien Azema, Nicolas Estrada, Farhang Radjai', and Arcesio Lizcano 519

Evolution of the contact distribution in sheared 2D granular packingsJens Boberski, M. Reza Shaebani, and Dietrich E. Wolf 523

Homogeneity and packing structure of a 2D sheared granular systemJie Ren, Joshua Dijksman, and Robert P. Behringer 527

Numerical investigation of granular flow in a shear cell

X. Wang, H. P. Zhu, A. B. Yu, and S. Luding 531

3.4. Transportation, Propagation and Conduction

Mass-disorder effects on the frequency filtering in one-dimensional discrete particle systemsBrian P. Lawney and Stefan Luding 535

Thermal conduction in particle packs via finite elements

Jeremy B. Lechman, Cole Yarrington, William Erikson, and David R. Noble 539

Forming and breaking of contacts in jammed granular media by nonlinear acoustic waves

S. Wildenberg, Y. Yang, M. van Hecke, and X. Jia 543

Constrained optimisation in granular network flows: Games with a loaded dice

Qun Lin and Antoinette Tordesillas 547

Transport pathways within percolating pore space networks of granular materials

Kevin Vo, David M. Walker, and Antoinette Tordesillas 551

Study on small-strain behaviours of methane hydrate sandy sediments using discrete element

method

Yanxin Yu, Xiaomin Xu, Yi Pik Cheng, and Kenichi Soga 555

Dispersive behavior and acoustic scaling in granular rocks

Santos Carlos, Urdaneta Vanessa, Medina Ernesto, and Garcia Xavier 559

Global Markov modelling and analysis of the dynamics ofgranular deformation and flow

Gary Froyland, Antoinette Tordesillas, and David M. Walker 563

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Granular acoustics ofpolyhedral particles

Wei Shen Cheng, Jian Chen, and Hans-Georg Matuttis 567

Grain-based characterisation and acoustic wave propagation in a sand packing subject to triaxial

compressionMohammad Saadatfar, Nicolas Francois, Alon Arad, Mahyar Madadi, Adrian Sheppard, Tim

Senden, and Mark Knackstedt 571

The role of Rayleigh waves in granular solids

Alessandro Spadoni and Bart Van Damme 575

Energy transmission through grain-to-grain contacts: The role of bulk and Rayleigh waves

Bart Van Damme, Emil Shaykhilislamov, and Alessandro Spadoni 577

Hydraulic and acoustic investigation of sintered glass beads

Ibrahim Gueven, Stefan Luding, and Holger Steeb 581

3.5. Compaction

A multiscale description of failure in granular materials

Nejib Hadda, Francois Nicot, Luc Sibille, Farhang Radjai, Antoinette Tordesillas, and Felix Darve 585

Statistical mechanics description of an isotropic compression and its relationship tomicromechanics

W. F. Oquendo and J. D. Munoz 589

Simulation of current-activated pressure-assisted densification

Sebastian Angst, Gabi Schierning, and Dietrich E. Wolf 593

Distinguishing and predicting granular failure via multiscale evolution of contact cycle topologiesSebastian Pucilowski, David M. Walker, and Antoinette Tordesillas 597

Force correlations, anisotropy, and friction mobilization in granular assemblies under uniaxial

deformation

O. I. Imole, M. Wojtkowski, V. Magnanimo, and S. Luding 601

Length scales from elastic buckling of a force chain under confined axial compressionAntoinette Tordesillas, David Carey, and Jingyu Shi 605

Modeling of compressible self-organized granular media under static load

Mikhail N. Skachkov 609

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