When a solid sphere drops in a granular medium, an impact crater is created. The penetration of the projectile in the granular bed as a function of the impact energy is evaluated theoretically using a simple model including a friction law between the projectile and the grains, a viscous dissipation in the bed and a force from the collisions between the projectile and the granular material. This model is observed to be in agreement with our quasi-2D experimental results and suggests that the penetration depth is a power law of the total drop distance. © 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Seguin, A., Bertho, Y., & Gondret, P. (2009). Penetration of a projectile by impact into a granular medium. In Traffic and Granular Flow 2007 (pp. 647–652). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77074-9_72
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