Universal Structural Characteristics of Planar Granular Packs
Universal Structural Characteristics of Planar Granular Packs
Dependence of structural self-organization of granular materials on preparation and grain parameters is key to predictive modelling. We study 60 different mechanically equilibrated polydisperse disc packs, generated numerically by two protocols. We show that, for same-variance disc size distributions (DSDs): 1. the mean coordination number of rattler-free packs vs. the …