Strain versus stress in a model granular material: a devil's staircase

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 3628-3631

  Combe, Gaël ^a   Roux, Jean Noël ^a  

^a University Paris Est LCPC   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION TESTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; ELASTOPLASTICITY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRAIN RATE; STRESSES;

BIAXIAL COMPRESSION TEST; DISORDERED PACKINGS; GEOMETRIC QUASISTATIC METHOD; ISOTROPIC COMPACTION;

GRANULAR MATERIALS;

EID: 0034295796     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3628     Document Type: Article

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