Shape influences on the packing density of frustums

Powder Technology

Volumn 214, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 500-505

  Zhao, Jian ^a   Li, Shuixiang ^a   Lu, Peng ^a   Meng, Lingyi ^a   Li, Teng ^a   Zhu, Haiping ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aspect ratio; Cone; Cylinder; Frustum; Random packing; Truncated cone

Indexed keywords

BIVARIATE FUNCTIONS; EMPIRICAL FORMULAS; FRUSTUM; LINEAR SUPERPOSITIONS; NONSPHERICAL PARTICLE; PACKING DENSITY; RADII RATIO; RANDOM PACKING; RELAXATION ALGORITHM; SHAPE PARAMETERS; SIMULATION RESULT; SPHERE MODEL; TRUNCATED CONE; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); PACKING; POLYDISPERSITY; SPHERES;

ASPECT RATIO;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT; GEOMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MATERIAL STATE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PACKAGING; PARTICLE SIZE; PREDICTION; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 80054866460     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: 1873328X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2011.09.013     Document Type: Article

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