Sen, Surajit; Manciu, Marian - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 268 (1999) 3, pp. 644-649
We consider elastic grains which repel upon contact according to the Hertz potential V=aδn,n2, where δ is the overlap between adjacent grains and report numerical and analytical studies for the case of a 1-D chain of spherical grains to show that an impulse initiated at an end of a chain of...