Signatures of granular microstructure in dense shear flows

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6794, 2000, Pages 385-389

  Mueth, Daniel M ^a   Debregeas, Georges F ^a   Karczmar, Greg S ^b   Eng, Peter J ^c   Nagel, Sidney R ^a   Jaeger, Heinrich M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUBRICATING AGENT;

GRANULAR MEDIUM; MICROSTRUCTURE; SHEAR FLOW;

GRANULAR MEDIUM; ROCK MICROSTRUCTURE; SHEAR FLOW;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; GEOMETRY; GRAIN; MATERIALS TESTING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SHEAR STRESS; STEADY STATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

EID: 0034721175     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35019032     Document Type: Article

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