Sphere packing with a geometric based compression algorithm

Powder Technology

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-41

  Han, K ^a   Feng, Y T ^a   Owen, D R J ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compression; Contact search; Discrete elements; Shaking; Sphere packing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA COMPRESSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GEOMETRY;

COMPRESSION ALGORITHMS; CYLINDRICAL DOMAINS; PACKING DENSITY; SPHERE PACKING;

PACKING;

ELEMENT;

DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; COST CONTROL; DENSITY; GEOMETRY; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; RANDOMIZATION; SIMULATION;

EID: 22744448589     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2005.04.055     Document Type: Article

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