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Volume 100, Number 3, November 2012
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| Article Number | 34004 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/100/34004 | |
| Published online | 20 November 2012 | |
Stability of a granular layer on an inclined “fakir plane”
1 Univ Paris-Sud, Univ Paris 6, CNRS, Lab FAST - Bât. 502, Campus Univ, F-91405 Orsay, France, EU
2 Instituto de Física Aplicada, CONICET, Departamento de Física, Universidad Nacional de San Luis 5700 San Luis, Argentina
3 Grupo de Medios Porosos, CONICET, Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Buenos Aires - 1063 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Received: 31 July 2012
Accepted: 19 October 2012
We present here experimental results on the effect of a forest of cylinder obstacles (nails) on the stability of a granular layer over a rough incline, in a so-called “fakir plane” configuration. The nail forest is found to increase the stability of the layer, the more for the densest array, and such an effect is recovered by a simple model taking into account the additional friction force exerted by the pillar forest onto the granular layer.
PACS: 45.70.-n – Granular systems / 45.70.Ht – Avalanches
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