Stiffness pathologies in discrete granular systems: Bifurcation, neutral equilibrium, and instability in the presence of kinematic constraints

Summary The paper develops the stiffness relationship between the movements and forces among a system of discrete interacting grains. The approach is similar to that used in structural analysis, but the stiffness matrix of granular material is inherently nonsymmetric because of the geometrics of par...

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