Force transmission in granular media

KONA Powder and Particle Journal

Volumn 15, Issue May, 1997, Pages 81-90

  Thornton, Colin ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANULAR MATERIALS;

CONTACT AREAS; CONTACT FORCES; CONTACT STIFFNESS; FORCE TRANSMISSION; GRANULAR MEDIA; INTERPARTICLE CONTACTS; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

EID: 77952920219     PISSN: 02884534     EISSN: 21875537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14356/kona.1997012     Document Type: Review

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