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Pattern Evolution of Granular Media Rotated in a Drum Mixer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

K. M. Hill ,
J. Kakalios  and
A. Caprihan
K. M. Hill
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J. Kakalios
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
A. Caprihan
Affiliation:
The Lovelace Institute, 2425 Ridgecrest Drive Southeast, Albuquerque, NM 87108
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Abstract

A homogeneous mixturea of different types of granular material will often segregate when rotated in a drum mixer. In the traditional axial segregation effect, the mixture of two different sizes of granular media will appear from the surface to separate into bands of relatively pure single concentrations along the axis of rotation. The initial pattern is not stable, but evolves in time with continued rotation through metastable states of fewer and fewer bands. We describe two experimental methods for measuring this evolution which provide a more complete picture of the dynamics involved in the pattern progression. The use of a CCD camera in conjunction with digital analysis techniques provides a consistent and precise measure of the state of the surface as a function of time. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques are used to noninvasively measure the segregation beneath the surface. These methods indicate that the underlying mechanisms of the pattern evolution originate in the bulk of the material beneath the avalanching surface.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 463: Symposia EE – Statistical Mechanics in Physics and Biology , 1996 , 227
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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