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March 2011 EPL, 93 (2011) 64003 doi: 10.1209/0295-5075/93/64003 Shearing of frictional sphere packings ´ 1(a) 2 3 2 ¨ 1 J.-F. Metayer , D. J. Suntrup III , C. Radin , H. L. Swinney and M. Schroter 1 Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization - G¨ottingen, Germany, EU 2 Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin - Austin, TX, USA 3 Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin - Austin, TX, USA received 6 January 2011; accepted in final form 23 February 2011 published online 23 March 2011 PACS 45.70.-n – Granular systems PACS 45.70.Cc – Static sandpiles; granular compaction PACS 81.05.Rm – Porous materials; granular materials Abstract – We measure shear response in packings of glass beads by pulling a thin, rough, metal plate vertically through a bed of volume fraction φ, which is set, before the plate is pulled, in the range from 0.575 to 0.628. The yield stress is velocity independent over 4 decades and increases exponentially with φ, with a transition at φ ≈ 0.595. An analysis of the measured force fluctuations indicates that the shear modulus is significantly smaller than the bulk modulus. c Copyright EPLA, 2011 Introduction. – Granular matter is distinguished in a) b) V part by its response to shear stress. We examine here the response to shear of beds of glass beads