Scale invariance and universality of force networks in static granular matter

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7078, 2006, Pages 828-830

  Ostojic, Srdjan ^a   Somfai, Ellák ^b,c   Nienhuis, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

FORCE NETWORKS; GRANULAR PACKINGS; SCALE INVARIANCE; STATIC GRANULAR MATTER;

GRANULAR MATERIALS;

PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; ENGINEERING; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; FORCE; GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 32844475517     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04549     Document Type: Article

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