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Mechanics of granular matter / Qicheng Sun & Guangqian Wang.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Chinese science todayPublisher: Southampton ; Boston : WIT Press, c2013'Description: 192 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781845646448 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 530.4 23 SUN
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CONTENT

Chapter 1 Behaviors of Granular materials
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Static behaviors
1.3 Dynamic behaviors
1.4 Force measurement and internal structure recognition
1.5 Granular Physics

Chapter 2 Contact Mechanics of spherical particles
2.1 Nonadhesive contact
2.2 Adhesive contact


Chapter 3 Soft-sphere approach and hard-sphere approach
3.1 Soft-sphere approach
3.2 Hard-sphere approach
3.3 Comparisons

Chapter 4 Liquid bridge forces
4.1 Liquid distribution
4.2 Static liquid bridge force
4.3 Dynamic liquid force

Chapter 5 Discrete element method
5.1 Contact searching
5.2 Rigid-sphere-based DEM
5.3 Soft-sphere-based DEM
5.4 Large-scale parallel computing

Chapter 6 Force chains
6.1 Formation of force chain
6.2 Measurements of contact force
6.3 Bulk contact stress
6.4 Bulk Friction
6.5 Bulk restitution coefficient

Chapter 7 Jamming and structure transformations
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Frictionless soft sphere systems
7.3 Frictional soft sphere systems
7.4 Jamming of other disordered systems
7.5 Structural transformation in a frictional system
etc

Chapter 8 Point loading response and shear band evolution
8.1 Point loading transmission
8.2 Force network under uniaxial compresion
8.3 Shear bands
8.4 Energy transformations

Chapter 9 Granular flows
9.1 Coulomb friction
9.2 Bagnold number
9.3 Inertial number and contact stress
9.4 Flow regimes
9.5 Constant- volume granular flows
etc

Chapter 10 Preliminary multiscale mechanics
10.1 Macroscopic stress and strain
10.2 Macro-micro relations
10.3 Multiscale mechanics

References : p. 192

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