Contact forces in regular 3D granular pile

G. Oron and H.J. Herrmann

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1999, vol. 265, issue 3, 455-462

Abstract: We present exact results for the contact forces in a three dimensional static piling of identical, stiff and frictionless spheres. The pile studied is a pyramid of equilateral triangular base (“stack of cannonballs”) with a FCC (face centered cubic) structure. We show in particular that, as for the two dimensional case, the pressure on the base of such a pile is uniform.

Keywords: 3D Granular pile; Pressure dip (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00648-7

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