Simulated effect of box size and wall on porosity of random packings of spherical particles

Acta Mechanica

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 219-231

  Furukawa, K ^a   Imai, K ^a   Kurashige, M ^a  

^a IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRAPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

CYCLIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; RANDOM PACKINGS; SPHERICAL PARTICLES; STATISTICAL GEOMETRY MODELS;

POROSITY;

EID: 0033681958     PISSN: 00015970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01182512     Document Type: Article

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