Capturing nonspherical shape of granular media with disk clusters

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 169-178

  Thomas, Patricia A ^a   Bray, Jonathan D ^a  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANULAR MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHEAR STRENGTH;

DISK CLUSTERS;

SOIL MECHANICS;

GRANULAR MEDIUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL MECHANICS;

EID: 0033104056     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(1999)125:3(169)     Document Type: Article

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