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Revista mexicana de física
Print version ISSN 0035-001X
Rev. mex. fis. vol.60 n.2 México Mar./Apr. 2014
Investigación
Collapse-driven formation of a tetratic structure of confined quasi-2D granular tubes
R. Sánchez and A. Huerta
Departamento de Física, Facultad de Física e Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Veracruzana, Circuito Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán s/n, Zona Universitaria, Xalapa 91000, Veracruz, Mexico, e-mail: rodrsanchez@uv.mx
Received 8 October 2013.
Accepted 27 November 2013.
Abstract
A tetratic phase, characterized by four-fold orientational symmetry, is observed in an experimental quasi-2D system of tubular particles subject to granular collapse. Evidence is presented that the cell's aspect ratio primarily affects the fraction of particles aligned along the length of the cell and not the overall degree of tetratic order as measured by the tetratic order parameter S4, and that granular collapse enhances tetratic order beyond the effect of increasing the effective local density.
Keywords: Quasi-2D; granular collapse; tetratic order; driven granular media; tubular particles.
PACS: 68.18.-g; 68.47.Pe; 81.05.Rm
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Acknowledgements
AH acknowledges funding from CONACYT (project number 152431), and RS acknowledges separate support from CONACYT (Retención 174462). The authors also acknowledge technical assistance from I. C. Romero-Sánchez.
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