Loose-rigid transition in 3d packing of spheres

V.m Oliveira and M.A.f Gomes

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1999, vol. 272, issue 3, 294-299

Abstract: The classical problem of the random packing of spheres is restudied by introducing a new type of constraint among the spheres. This is done by examining the three-dimensional packing density of an open string of spherical beads as a function of the corresponding one-dimensional density along the string. The discussion stresses the peculiar behaviour of the problem as well as connections with some results in random packing of spheres and other systems.

Keywords: Loose–rigid transition; Sphere packings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(99)00281-2

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