Compressive consolidation of strongly aggregated particle gels

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1347-1366

  Seto, Ryohei ^a,b   Botet, Robert ^c   Meireles, Martine ^d   Auernhammer, Günter K ^b   Cabane, Bernard ^e  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^e ESPCI   (France)

Author keywords

Compression; Consolidation; DEM simulation; Fractal model; Particle gel; Yield stress

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE YIELD STRESS; CORRELATION LENGTHS; DEM SIMULATION; FRACTAL MODEL; NONLINEAR DEPENDENCE; STRUCTURAL ENTITIES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS; UNI-AXIAL COMPRESSION;

COMPACTION; CONSOLIDATION; FRACTAL DIMENSION; GELS; YIELD STRESS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84883767334     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.4817436     Document Type: Article

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