Geometry of frictionless and frictional sphere packings

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Silbert, Leonardo E ^a   Ertaş, Deniz ^b   Grest, Gary S ^a   Halsey, Thomas C ^b   Levine, Dov ^c  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FRICTION; GEOMETRY; GRANULAR MATERIALS; HARDNESS; METALLIC GLASS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PLASTICITY; SPHERES;

FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; FRICTIONAL SPHERES; HYPERSTATIC PACKINGS; SPHERE PACKINGS;

PACKING;

EID: 37649027693     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.031304     Document Type: Article

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