GRANULAR MEDIA AS A PHYSICS PROBLEM

S. F. Edwards and D. V. Grinev
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S. F. Edwards: Polymers and Colloids Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK
D. V. Grinev: Polymers and Colloids Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK

Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), 2001, vol. 04, issue 04, 451-467

Abstract: Although there is a vast engineering literature for granular materials, as a subject for physicists it has seen great growth in recent years. This is because, when stripped down to the fundamental problem, it is quite novel, and demands a rethink of the kind of laws familiar elsewhere in physics. We consider the transmission of stress in granular materials and investigate the simplest statically determinate problem.

Keywords: Stress tensor; compactivity; random packings; configuration tensor; tapping-induced compaction; volume function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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