Percolating behavior of sintered random packings of spheres

Powder Technology

Volumn 231, Issue , 2012, Pages 44-53

  Bertei, A ^a   Choi, H W ^b   Pharoah, J G ^b,c   Nicolella, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contact angle; Extended percolation theory; Numerical reconstruction; Pore former; Random packing; Sintering

Indexed keywords

COORDINATION NUMBER; NUMERICAL RECONSTRUCTION; PARTICLE-PARTICLE CONTACT ANGLES; PERCOLATION PROBABILITY; PERCOLATION THEORY; PORE-FORMER; RANDOM COMPOSITES; RANDOM PACKING; RELATIVE ERRORS; RIGID SPHERE; SINTERING EFFECT; SPHERICAL PARTICLE; THEORETICAL RESULT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT ANGLE; DROPS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PACKING; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

SINTERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTACT ANGLE; DISPERSION; EXTENDED PERCOLATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; PROBABILITY; RIGIDITY; SINTERING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; THEORY;

EID: 84865783520     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: 1873328X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2012.07.041     Document Type: Article

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