Force balance in canonical ensembles of static granular packings

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn 2010, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Tighe, Brian P ^a   Vlugt, Thijs J H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disordered systems (theory); Granular matter; Heterogeneous materials (theory); Jamming and packing

Indexed keywords

EID: 76149130427     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2010/01/P01015     Document Type: Article

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