This invention relates to the field of particle
mechanics research technology, and particularly to a
force chain visualization model device based on a mechanoluminescent
particle system. The device includes a fully transparent shearing box, a
liquid crystal micro-controlled ring shearing apparatus, an upper pressure plate, a lower pressure plate, a displacement meter, and a
camera module. The lower pressure plate is connected to the
liquid crystal micro-controlled ring shearing apparatus. The bottom of the fully transparent shearing box is fixed to the lower pressure plate. The fully transparent shearing box is filled with mechanoluminescent particles to form a
particle system. The upper surface of the
particle system is flattened, and the upper pressure plate is placed on the upper surface of the particle
system. The displacement meter is mounted on top of the upper pressure plate. The
camera module is mounted horizontally on the fully transparent shearing box and aligned with the particle
system. The
liquid crystal micro-controlled ring shearing apparatus has a control display. This invention achieves real-time
dynamic visualization of the contact forces and
force chain distribution between particles; it overcomes the limitations of traditional technologies on particle materials, sizes, and shapes, and is applicable to multiphase and multi-scale particle systems.