Investigating the geometrical structure of disordered sphere packings

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 339, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 16-23

  Aste, T ^a   Saadatfar, M ^a   Sakellariou, A ^a   Senden, T J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complex materials; Granular materials; Microtomography; Sphere packing

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; COMPACTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DENSIFICATION; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (OPTICAL); GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; GRANULAR MATERIALS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PACKING;

COMPLEX MATERIALS C; ISOTROPIC LIQUIDS; MICROTOMOGRAPHY; SPHERE PACKING;

SPHERES;

EID: 2942606282     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.03.034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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