Local and global relations between the number of contacts and density in monodisperse sphere packs

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn , Issue 7, 2006, Pages

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

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Granular matter; Structural correlations (experiment); Structural correlations (theory); Structural glasses (theory)

Indexed keywords

EID: 42749107255     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2006/07/P07010     Document Type: Article

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