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Shock propagation in a granular chain

E. Hascoet, V. Loreto, H. J. Herrmann

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/9810179

Abstract

We numerically solve the propagation of a shock wave in a chain of elastic beads with no restoring forces under traction (no-tension elasticity). We find a sequence of peaks of decreasing amplitude and velocity. Analyzing the main peak at different times we confirm a recently proposed scaling law for its decay.

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