https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202124903031
Measuring jumps during granular chute-flows using X-ray radiography
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Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INRAE, UR ETNA, F-38402 St Martin d’Hères, France
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School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
* e-mail: segolene.mejean@gmail.com
** e-mail: francois.guillard@sydney.edu.au
*** e-mail: thierry.faug@inrae.fr
**** e-mail: itai.einav@sydney.edu.au
Published online: 7 June 2021
The present paper describes laboratory tests on steady granular flows down a smooth chute using X-ray radiography. By using an original granular chute set-up with a gate at its end, standing discontinuites in height, velocity and density, namely jumps, were produced during the granular flows. The X-ray radiography was successful to get consistent measurements of the free-surface and density profiles of the flows along the chute under different flow states: the (nearly) uniform flows before the jumps, the gradually-varied flows after the jumps, and the highly non-uniform flows across the jumps. This demonstrates the efficiency of the X-ray radiography to measure granular flows.
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