Nonlinear Pulse Equipartition in Weakly Coupled Ordered Granular Chains With No Precompression
Nonlinear Pulse Equipartition in Weakly Coupled Ordered Granular Chains With No Precompression
We report on the strongly nonlinear dynamics of an array of weakly coupled, noncompressed, parallel granular chains subject to a local initial impulse. The motion of the granules in each chain is constrained to be in one direction that coincides with the orientation of the chain. We show that in …