Ant tunneling-A granular media perspective

Granular Matter

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 607-616

  Espinoza, D Nicolas ^a   Santamarina, J Carlos ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant nest; Digging; Discrete element method; Micromechanics; Tunnel stability

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GEOMECHANICS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MICROMECHANICS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL MODELS; ANT NEST; DIGGING; GEOMETRIC PATTERNS; LOCAL INFORMATION; PARTICLE REMOVAL; TUNNEL STABILITY; TUNNEL STRUCTURES;

TUNNELING (EXCAVATION);

EID: 84897994066     PISSN: 14345021     EISSN: 14347636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10035-010-0202-y     Document Type: Review

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