Can Dispersive Pressure Cause Inverse Grading in Grain Flows?: Discussion
Can Dispersive Pressure Cause Inverse Grading in Grain Flows?: Discussion
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分散压力会导致谷物流的逆级配吗?:讨论
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2003
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J. P. Roux
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J. P. Roux
The concept of dispersive pressure was originally proposed by Bagnold (1954), who showed experimentally that sheared granular material develops a dispersive pressure that is proportional to the shear stress and the particle concentration. Legros (2002) presented a theoretical analysis suggesting that dispersive pressure cannot account for the inverse grading commonly observed in grain flows, modified grain flows or traction carpets, contrary to what has been accepted for decades by many sedimentologists. He pointed out that, if the dispersive pressure in a sheared granular mass increases and exceeds the applied normal stress or static pressure, the net upward force acting upon the bed causes it to expand, as has in fact been observed in experiments. Bed expansion immediately causes a decrease in particle concentration and consequently in dispersive pressure, until the latter balances the static pressure and expansion stops. If the dispersive pressure becomes less than the static pressure, the net downward force acting upon the granular bed causes compaction, thus increasing the particle concentration and dispersive pressure. This is an important concept enhancing our understanding of an as yet poorly understood process. However, Legros (2002) went further to state that "the dispersive pressure must always equal the applied normal shear stress at every level (emphasis mine) through the shearing granular bed." This implies that the whole sheared bed is in constant equilibrium, which is probably not the case. In this discussion a modified process is proposed that accounts for the bipartite traction carpet structure proposed by Sohn (1997).
Traction carpets are moving layers of highly concentrated bedload material developed beneath and driven by an overlying turbulent flow (Dzulynski and Sanders 1962). Sohn (1997), on the basis of numerical analyses, computer simulations, field measurements, and experimental studies (Bagnold 1955, 1963; Hanes and Bowen 1985; Wan …