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Discovering Community Structures and Dynamical Networks from Grain-Scale Kinematics of Shear Bands in Sand
The quest to understand the connections between the triumvirate of structure, dynamics and function continues to drive the forefront of research in Complex Systems. Crucial to these explorations is the development of graph-theoretic techniques that: (i) can detect communities and associated boundaries in the underlying network or graph, which represents the interactions of constituent units, and (ii) quantify shortest paths and related network measures within this graph. We report on a new study using data from high resolution digital image correlation (DIC) measurements of grain-scale kinematics in sand under shear. Preliminary results show that the nodes of the network in the shear band region exhibit high closeness centrality – a network measure of how efficient a given node is in spreading information to all the other nodes in the graph. It is thus reasonable to expect that the most efficient routes for spread of kinematical information within this network are those from nodes that correspond to the grid points that lie along the shear band. We believe these studies will ultimately lead to an improved understanding of self-organization, the nature of energy flow and dynamics in the critical state regime in the presence of persistent shear bands.
Discovering Community Structures and Dynamical Networks from Grain-Scale Kinematics of Shear Bands in Sand
The quest to understand the connections between the triumvirate of structure, dynamics and function continues to drive the forefront of research in Complex Systems. Crucial to these explorations is the development of graph-theoretic techniques that: (i) can detect communities and associated boundaries in the underlying network or graph, which represents the interactions of constituent units, and (ii) quantify shortest paths and related network measures within this graph. We report on a new study using data from high resolution digital image correlation (DIC) measurements of grain-scale kinematics in sand under shear. Preliminary results show that the nodes of the network in the shear band region exhibit high closeness centrality – a network measure of how efficient a given node is in spreading information to all the other nodes in the graph. It is thus reasonable to expect that the most efficient routes for spread of kinematical information within this network are those from nodes that correspond to the grid points that lie along the shear band. We believe these studies will ultimately lead to an improved understanding of self-organization, the nature of energy flow and dynamics in the critical state regime in the presence of persistent shear bands.
Discovering Community Structures and Dynamical Networks from Grain-Scale Kinematics of Shear Bands in Sand
Bonelli, Stéphane (editor) / Dascalu, Cristian (editor) / Nicot, François (editor) / Tordesillas, Antoinette (author) / Walker, David M. (author) / Rechenmacher, Amy L. (author) / Abedi, Sara (author)
2011-05-28
7 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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