The effect of particle dimensionality on Granular friction in laboratory shear zones

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 19, 2002, Pages

  Frye, Kevin M ^a   Marone, Chris ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; NUMERICAL MODELS; SHEAR FLOW; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TRIBOLOGY;

COEFFICIENT OF FRICTIONS; FRICTIONAL STRENGTH; GRANULAR FRICTION; INTERPARTICLE FRICTION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARTICLE CONTACTS; PARTICLE DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

EID: 0036820036     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015709     Document Type: Article

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