Force and weight distributions in granular media: Effects of contact geometry

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 3 1, 2003, Pages

  Snoeijer, Jacco H ^a   Van Hecke, Martin ^b   Somfai, Ellak ^a,c   Van Saarloos, Wim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORCE MEASUREMENT; FRICTION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; WEIGHING;

CONTACT GEOMETRY; HERTZIAN SPHERES; INTERPARTICLE FORCES; WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION;

PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

EID: 37649028586     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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