Coefficient of friction of binary granular mixtures in contact with a smooth wall PART I: Direct shear box measurements of the effects of particle size ratio and particle surface roughness

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 54, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 5901-5912

  Abou Chakra, H ^a   Tuzun U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binary mixture; Coefficient of wall friction

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRESS; FRICTION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); STRESS ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

WALL FRICTION COEFFICIENT;

BINARY MIXTURES;

MIXTURE;

EID: 0342470640     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(99)00176-1     Document Type: Article

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