From shear bands to rapid flow: editorial

Shear bands in granular flow through a mixing length model

Abstract. We discuss the advantages and results of using a mixing-length, compressible model to account for shear banding behaviour in granular flow. We formulate a general approach based on two function of the solid fraction to be determined. Studying the vertical chute flow, we show that shear band thickness is always independent from flowrate in the quasistatic limit, for Coulomb wall bounda...

Propagation of Adiabatic Shear Bands

Fluid depletion in shear bands.

How does pore liquid reconfigure within shear bands in wet granular media? Conventional wisdom predicts that liquid is drawn into dilating granular media. We, however, find a depletion of liquid in shear bands despite increased porosity due to dilatancy. This apparent paradox is resolved by a microscale model for liquid transport at low liquid contents induced by rupture and reconfiguration of ...

Numerical Computations For Shear Bands in an Antiplane Shear Model

We study numerically a model for shear bands that is loosely based on anti-plane shearing of granular material. In the model, a shear band is idealized to a jump discontinuity in the solution to the dynamic PDE. We do not explicitly incorporate small scale eeects within the shear band into the model{rather at the shear band we impose a jump condition which includes a length parameter modeling t...

Shear bands due to heat flux prescribed at boundaries

We analyze the initiation and development of a shear band in a thermo-elasto-viscoplastic body deformed in simple shear by tangential velocity and heat flux prescribed at the outer bounding surfaces. Unlike previous studies no defect is introduced to initiate a shear band. The prescribed heat flux acts as a defect, and the shear band initiation time depends upon it. 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All right...