@article{b,
title = {Shock propagation in a granular chain},
author = {Erwan Hascoet and Hand J. Herrmann and Vittorio Loreto},
url = {http://pre.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v59/i3/p3202_1, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=000079233500019&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=0c7ff228ccbaaa74236f48834a34396a},
year = {1999},
date = {1999-01-01},
journal = {PHYSICAL REVIEW E},
volume = {59},
pages = {3202--3206},
publisher = {AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC.},
abstract = {We numerically solve the propagation of a shock wave in a chain of elastic beads with no restoring forces under traction (no-tension elasticity). We find a sequence of peaks of decreasing amplitude and velocity. Analyzing the main peak at different times we confirm a recently proposed scaling law for its decay.},
keywords = {granular_media, hascoet, herrmann, loreto},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
We numerically solve the propagation of a shock wave in a chain of elastic beads with no restoring forces under traction (no-tension elasticity). We find a sequence of peaks of decreasing amplitude and velocity. Analyzing the main peak at different times we confirm a recently proposed scaling law for its decay.