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When a load is applied to a granular material, the stress is not uniformly distributed but concentrates into quasi-linear particle assemblies known as force chains. By the time they can be observed, force chains are apparently quasistatic in the sense that they persist over time scales much longer than elastic timescales (such as a contact time) over which an unstable chain breaks apart. But many...
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