Stress Field in Granular Systems: Loop Forces and Potential Formulation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 4-

  Ball, Robin C ^a   Blumenfeld, Raphael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85038320674     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.115505     Document Type: Article

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