World Scientific Lecture Notes in Complex Systems - Vol. 8
GRANULAR AND COMPLEX MATERIALS
edited by T Aste, T Di Matteo (The Australian National University, Australia) & A Tordesillas (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Table of Contents (37k) Preface (55k) Chapter 1: Foam as granular matter (2,433k)
The science of complex materials continues to engage researchers from a vast range of disciplines, including physics, mathematics, computational science, and virtually all domains of engineering.
This volume presents a unique multidisciplinary panorama of the current research in complex materials. The contributions explore an array of problems reflecting recent developments in four main areas: characterization and modeling of disordered packings, micromechanics and continuum theory; discrete element method; statistical mechanics. The common theme is the quest to unravel the connection between the microscopic and macroscopic properties of complex materials.
Contents:
- Foam as Granular Matter (D Weaire et al.)
- Delaunay Simplex Analysis
of the Structure of Equal Sized Spheres (A V Anikeenko et al.)
- On Entropic Characterization of Granular Materials (R Blumenfeld)
- Mathematical Modeling of Granular Flow-Slides (I Vardoulakis & S Alevizos)
- The Mechanics of Brittle Granular Materials (I Einav)
- Stranger than Friction: Force Chain Buckling and Its Implications for Constitutive Modelling (A Tordesillas)
- Investigations of Size Effects in Granular Bodies During Plane Strain Compression (J Tejchman & J Górski)
- Granular Flows: Fundamentals and Applications (P W Cleary)
- Fine Tuning DEM Simulations to Perform Virtual Experiments with Three-Dimensional Granular Packings (G W Delaney et al.)
- Fluctuations in Granular Materials (R P Behringer)
- Statistical Mechanics of Dense Granular Media (M Pica Ciamarra et al.)
- Compaction of Granular Systems (P Richard et al.)
Readership: Physicists, material scientists, soil engineers and applied
mathematicians.
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Pub. date: Oct 2007 |
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