Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Archimedes’ law explains penetration of solids into granular media

  • Wenting Kang,
  • Yajie Feng,
  • Caishan Liu,
  • Raphael Blumenfeld

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03344-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The penetration dynamics of solid objects into granular media has been described by theories that are constrained to the use of phenomenological models or empirical parameters. Here, Kang et al. propose and test a parameter-free model for the dependence of the resistance force on penetration depth.