Local stiffness and force chains. (IMAGE)

Tokyo Metropolitan University

Local stiffness and force chains.

Caption

Distributions of harder regions (left) and force chains (right). Though they do correlate, force chains connect into string-like structures.

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Tokyo Metropolitan University

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