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1 1 1906 San Francisco Stick-slip failure in sheared granular materials Karen E. Daniels – Physics, NC State Nick Hayman – Texas Kate Foco – NC State Lucie Ducloué – ENS Paris Karin Dahmen – UIUC Stefanos Papanikolau – Cornell Yehuda Ben-Zion – USC

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Stick-slip failure in sheared granular materials

Karen E. Daniels – Physics, NC State

Nick Hayman – TexasKate Foco – NC State

Lucie Ducloué – ENS Paris

Karin Dahmen – UIUCStefanos Papanikolau – Cornell

Yehuda Ben-Zion – USC

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Stick-slip dynamics

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Heslot, Baumberger, Caroli et al 1994; Nasuno, Kudrolli, Gollub et al 1998

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Stick: slowly evolving state between events Slip: block moves then halts during events

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Stick-slip motion in geological faults

1906 San Francisco earthquake

exhumed Punchbowl FaultChester & Chester (1998)

gouge

what is the origin of different spatiotemporal

patterns of failure?

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Granular-on-granular shear

(top view)

imposedfault

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“Stick” vs. “Slip”

stress builds up slip/failure doesn't occur

particle strength interparticle friction geometrical barriers

to rearrangement

stress released particles rearrange/break energy dissipated through

friction, sound dissipation eventually

arrests process

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Granular friction

Physics Today cover (1996)

angle of repose

= tan

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Friction without Friction

Lespiat, Cohen-Addad, and Höhler. PRL (2011)

frictionless angle of repose

* = 4.6o

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Granular-on-granular shear

F(t) x(t)

positionsensor

force sensor

dilation or constant V

~104 photoelastic particles fill shearing region imposed fault at boundary between front/back halves front half driven at constant velocity (spring-coupled)

vary packing density: 0.80 < φ < 0.84 (loose to dense packed)

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Photoelastic Force Measurements

right circularpolarizer

left circularpolarizer

birefringentdisk

lightsource

digitalcamera

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Force chains under shear

force chains oppose shear ~ exponential force distribution longer length scale from force chains

constant velocity

plateboundary

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Force chains propagate disturbances

Owens & Daniels, EPL (in press)

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Stick-slip events

Force

Position

measure position x(t) and pulling force F(t) during deformation events: rupture full fault bulk slip + force drop→ use Wiener deconvolution to filter noise

Papanikolaou et al. Nature Physics, 2011X =

x

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∣x ∣2

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Local failures, global effect

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Spatial characterization

β = fraction ofparticipating

particles

Image-differencing

Track particles

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Particle & force chain dynamics

boundary failure little particle rearrangement or force force chain failure

local failure patches of particle rearrangement and force chain failure

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Periodic vs. aperiodic events

Hayman, Ducloue, Foco, Daniels. Pure and Applied Geophysics (2011)ap

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Periodicity and packing fraction

fraction of events

which are periodic

random loose packingno mechanically stable

random states with φ < φRLP

(Onoda & Liniger, 1990)

random close packingcan't have φ > φRCP

without crystallization(Bernal, 1960)

Hayman, Ducloue, Foco, Daniels. Pure and Applied Geophysics (2011)

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What is the effect of changing ?

What are the origins of mode-switching?

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φ−dependent rheology

close-packed aggregates (high φ) stiffen more quickly than loose-packed (low φ)

stiffness K = dF/dX increases with φ

Hayman, Ducloue, Foco, Daniels. Pure and Applied Geophysics (2011)

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Quasi-periodic vs. aperiodic events

fraction of particles participatingin rearrangements

local failure: β > 0

boundary failure: β ~ 0

QP

AP

Hayman, Ducloue, Foco, Daniels. Pure and Applied Geophysics (2011)

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Periodicity and packing fraction

random loose packing random close packing

why does system exhibit fewer local failures as φ → φRCP?

fraction of events

which are periodic

(boundary failure)

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φ and localized failure

failures involving force chain buckling & local rearrangements become more likely as φ decreases towards random-loose-packing

accessibility of local rearrangement modes ↔higher variance in P(φ)

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P(φ) narrows as φ increases

Puckett, Lechenault & Daniels, PRE (2011)

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o f P

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≡v f

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Ensembles of valid packings

high φ

zero variance

one validconfiguration

low φ

more variance

many validconfigurations

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Crackling noise

arises in a disordered system with many degrees of freedom subjected to slow forcing

system produces discrete failure events with a wide variety of sizes

events have scaling shapes and exponents predicted by renormalization group

Sethna, Myers, Dahmen (2001)

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Mean field theory of slip 'avalanches'

slowly sheared material; well-separated avalanches key parameters:

volume fraction (φ, written as ν above)

weakening (ε) random thresholds for slipping

Dahmen, Ertas, Ben-Zion. PRE (1998)

Dahmen, Ben-Zion, Uhl. PRL (2009) & Nature Physics 2011

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Mode-switching

φRLP

φRCP

Dahmen, Ertas, Ben-Zion. PRE (1998)

Dahmen, Ben-Zion, Uhl. PRL (2009) & Nature Physics 2011

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Comparison to MFT

all spectra have exponent -2, consistent with MFT … but event durations T have a characteristic timescale

(high φ has longer T less dissipation)→

φ

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Event shapes

Event shapes are universal, symmetric …

and perhaps parabolic (MFT prediction)

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Event size scaling

observe size scaling exponent consistent with MFT prediction:

1 z

−1=2−1=1

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What sets the size distribution?

(remember: we detect only events that rupture the full fault)

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Size distribution: size dependence

Hayman, Ducloue, Foco, Daniels. Pure and Applied Geophysics (2011)

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Boundary conditions matter

constant volume⇓

power law distribution

permit dilation⇓

exponential distribution

Daniels & Hayman J. Geophys. Research (2008)

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Large events see the boundary

Small F

Large F

Daniels & Hayman J. Geophys. Research (2008)

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Conclusions

← granular stick-slip failure can be quite heterogeneous

observe changes in periodicity and size distributions as a function of the granular packing density and boundary condition

observe Earth-like mode-switching between periodic and aperiodic stick-slip events

scaling of events has a number of features in common with MFT

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