Singh, Saurabh;
Baudet, Beatrice Anne;
Coop, Matthew Richard;
(2025)
Particulate behaviour of soft granular materials: a case study on lentils.
Granular Matter
, 27
, Article 26. 10.1007/s10035-025-01506-x.
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Abstract
In this article, lentils are used as a case study to characterise the particulate behaviour of soft granular materials. Experiments were carried out on a single lentil particle or a pair of lentils. The single particle or a pair of particles in contact were compressed vertically to crushing or to a fixed vertical load. Then, in inter-particle tests, pairs of particles were slid over each other at a constant vertical load, and the tangential stiffness and coefficient of friction were estimated. The pairs of lentil particles in contact were also subjected to repeated normal and tangential loading. The presence or absence of the cover of lentil particles (shell) was found to affect their behaviour significantly under these loading conditions. The lentil particles have a very compliant shell and stiff core in normal loading; the stiffness of the shell is constant, and the core follows Hertz contact law. The lentil particles show less variability in their crushing strength, with high Weibull modulus (~ 10), in comparison to other natural granular materials like sand. With repeated cycles of vertical loading, the contact between a lentil pairs of particles becomes more stiff and less damp. In tangential loading, the coefficient of friction between lentil particles decreases with normal force while the contact stiffness increases. Further, in cyclic tangential loading, the coefficient of friction decreases and the contact stiffness increases with cycles. A simple contact model is also proposed to use in discrete element simulations.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Particulate behaviour of soft granular materials: a case study on lentils |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10035-025-01506-x |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10035-025-01506-x |
| Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | Particle contact behaviour; Soft granular materials; Coefficient of friction; Normal and tangential stiffness; Crushing strength; Weibull modulus; Layered materials |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10203061 |
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