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Collaborative Intruders

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In this simulation, three large disks -- known as intruders -- are pushed with constant force through a group of grains.

Eventually, the intruders clump together and jam up when the drag on them is too great.

Here the lightning-like web shows force chains that prevent the intruders' motion.

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