Rheology of a wet, fragmenting granular flow and the riddle of the anomalous friction of large rock avalanches

Granular Matter

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 179-184

  De Blasio, Fabio Vittorio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b International Centre for Geohazards   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC THEORIES; EFFECTIVE FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; GRANULAR FLOWS; IN LINES; PRESENCE OF WATERS; ROCK AVALANCHES; ROCK FRAGMENTATIONS; SMALL-SCALE EXPERIMENTS;

ROCK BURSTS; ROCKS; TRIBOLOGY;

FRICTION;

EID: 67349090331     PISSN: 14345021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10035-009-0134-6     Document Type: Article

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