Stress distributions in highly frictional granular heaps

Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Physik

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 330-356

  Thamwattana, Ngamta ^a   Cox, Grant M ^a   Hill, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coulomb Mohr yield condition; Exact parametric solution; Granular material; Highly frictional; Stock pile

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842815808     PISSN: 00442275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00033-003-3080-x     Document Type: Article

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