Statistics of contact force network in dense granular matter

Particuology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 133-140

  Wang, Dengming ^a   Zhou, Youhe ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contact network; Critical packing fraction; Force distribution; Shear granular flow

Indexed keywords

CONTACT FORCES; CONTACT NETWORKS; CRITICAL VALUE; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; FORCE DISTRIBUTIONS; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; GRANULAR FLOWS; GRANULAR MATTER; GRANULAR SYSTEM; PACKING FRACTIONS; SHEAR DIRECTION; SPATIAL CONFIGURATION;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFINED FLOW; FRICTION; RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK;

GRANULAR MATERIALS;

EID: 77949492466     PISSN: 16742001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.partic.2009.09.007     Document Type: Article

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