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Powders have been studied extensively because they arise in a wide variety of fields, ranging from soil mechanics to manufacture of pharmaceuticals. Only recently, however, with the deepening understanding of fractals, chaos, 1/f noise, and self-organization, has it been useful to study the mechanical properties of powders from a fundamental physical perspective. This book collects articles by some of the foremost researchers in the field, including chapters on: the role of entropy in the specification of a powder, by S.F. Edwards (Cambridge); discrete mechanics, by P.K. Haff (Duke); computer simulations of granular materials, by G.C. Barker (Norwich); pattern formation and complexity in granular flow, by R.P. Behringer and G.W. Baxter (Duke); avalanches in real sand piles, by A. Mehta (Birmingham); micromechanical models of failure, by M.J. Adams (Unilever) and B.J. Briscoe (Imperial College); mixing and segregation in particle flows, by J. Bridgwater (Birmingham); and hard-sphere colloidal suspensions, by P. Bartlett (Bristol) and W. van Megen (Melbourne).
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Book Title: Granular Matter
Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Editors: Anita Mehta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4290-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1994
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-94065-6Published: 07 December 1993
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8725-4Published: 06 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-4290-1Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 306
Topics: Condensed Matter Physics, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Classical Mechanics, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics