Bulletin of the American Physical Society

APS March Meeting 2017

Volume 62, Number 4

Monday–Friday, March 13–17, 2017; New Orleans, Louisiana

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Session X18: Continuum Descriptions of Discrete Materials

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Sponsoring Units: GSOFT GSNP
Chair: David Hennan, Brown University
Room: 277

Friday, March 17, 2017 8:00AM - 8:12AM		X18.00001: Retrogressive failure of a layer of granular material on an inclined plane Aaron Russell, Nico Gray, Christopher Johnson, Sylvain Viroulet Preview Abstract
Friday, March 17, 2017 8:12AM - 8:24AM		X18.00002: Formation of levees, troughs and elevated channels by avalanches on erodible slopes Andrew Edwards, Sylvain Viroulet, Peter Kokelaar, Nico Gray Preview Abstract
Friday, March 17, 2017 8:24AM - 8:36AM		X18.00003: Manifestation of Particle Morphology on the Mechanical Response of a Granular Ensemble Tejas Murthy, Ramesh Kandasami Preview Abstract
Friday, March 17, 2017 8:36AM - 8:48AM		X18.00004: Brittle to ductile transition in a model of sheared granular materials Ahmed Elbanna, Xiao Ma Preview Abstract
Friday, March 17, 2017 8:48AM - 9:00AM		X18.00005: Tensor Random Fields in Continuum Physics Martin Ostoja-Starzewski, Anatoliy Malyarenko Preview Abstract
Friday, March 17, 2017 9:00AM - 9:12AM		X18.00006: Improved particle simulation with rigid elasticity? Tyler Olsen, Ken Kamrin Preview Abstract
Friday, March 17, 2017 9:12AM - 9:24AM		X18.00007: Size-dependence of the flow threshold in dense granular materials David Henann, Daren Liu Preview Abstract
Friday, March 17, 2017 9:24AM - 9:36AM		X18.00008: Well-posed continuum equations for granular flow with compressibility and $\mu(I)$-rheology Thomas Barker, David Schaeffer, Michael Shearer, Nico Gray Preview Abstract
Friday, March 17, 2017 9:36AM - 9:48AM		X18.00009: Experimental Tests of Nonlocal Rheology in Dense Granular Flows Zhu Tang, Ted Brzinski, Michael Shearer, Karen Daniels Preview Abstract
Friday, March 17, 2017 9:48AM - 10:00AM		X18.00010: Applicability of Resistive Force Theory in design optimization for locomotion in granular beds Shashank Agarwal, Ken Kamrin, Andy Karsai, Daniel Goldman Preview Abstract
Friday, March 17, 2017 10:00AM - 10:36AM		X18.00011: How sand grains stop a high speed intruder Invited Speaker: Robert Behringer Preview Abstract
Friday, March 17, 2017 10:36AM - 10:48AM		X18.00012: Fast Wheels in Loose Granular Media Andras Karsai, Shashank Agarwal, Kenneth Kamrin, Daniel Goldman Preview Abstract
Friday, March 17, 2017 10:48AM - 11:00AM		X18.00013: Acoustic probing of a ball sinking in weakly vibrated dense granular suspensions Xiaoping Jia, Siet van den Wildenberg, Julien Léopoldès, Arnaud Tourin Preview Abstract

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

APS March Meeting 2017

Volume 62, Number 4

Monday–Friday, March 13–17, 2017; New Orleans, Louisiana

Session Index

Session X18: Continuum Descriptions of Discrete Materials

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