Sun, Qicheng, <br/><br/>
Mechanics of granular matter / 
Qicheng Sun & Guangqian Wang. 
 - 192 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
 - Chinese science today .
<br/><br/> <br/>CONTENT<br/><br/>Chapter 1  Behaviors of Granular materials <br/>    1.1  Introduction<br/>    1.2  Static behaviors<br/>    1.3 Dynamic behaviors<br/>    1.4 Force measurement and internal structure recognition<br/>    1.5 Granular Physics<br/><br/>Chapter 2  Contact Mechanics of spherical particles<br/>         2.1 Nonadhesive contact<br/>         2.2 Adhesive contact<br/>         <br/><br/>Chapter 3 Soft-sphere approach and hard-sphere approach<br/>     3.1  Soft-sphere approach<br/>     3.2  Hard-sphere approach<br/>     3.3 Comparisons<br/><br/>Chapter 4 Liquid bridge forces<br/>             4.1 Liquid distribution<br/>             4.2 Static liquid bridge force<br/>            4.3  Dynamic liquid force <br/>             <br/>Chapter 5  Discrete element method <br/>        5.1  Contact searching<br/>        5.2 Rigid-sphere-based DEM<br/>        5.3 Soft-sphere-based DEM<br/>        5.4 Large-scale parallel computing<br/><br/>Chapter 6 Force chains  <br/>       6.1 Formation of force chain<br/>       6.2 Measurements of contact force<br/>      6.3  Bulk contact stress<br/>     6.4  Bulk Friction<br/>     6.5  Bulk restitution coefficient<br/><br/>Chapter 7 Jamming and structure transformations<br/>         7.1 Introduction<br/>         7.2 Frictionless soft sphere systems<br/>         7.3 Frictional soft sphere systems<br/>         7.4 Jamming of other disordered systems<br/>         7.5 Structural transformation in a frictional system<br/>etc<br/><br/>Chapter 8 Point loading response and shear band evolution<br/>          8.1 Point loading transmission<br/>         8.2  Force network under uniaxial compresion<br/>         8.3  Shear bands<br/>         8.4 Energy transformations <br/>         <br/>Chapter 9 Granular flows<br/>            9.1 Coulomb friction<br/>            9.2 Bagnold number<br/>           9.3 Inertial number and contact stress<br/>           9.4  Flow regimes<br/>           9.5 Constant- volume granular flows<br/>etc<br/><br/>Chapter 10  Preliminary multiscale mechanics<br/>             10.1 Macroscopic stress and strain<br/>             10.2  Macro-micro relations<br/>              10.3  Multiscale mechanics<br/> 
<br/><br/>References : p. 192 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781845646448 (hardback) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Granular materials.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>530.4  / SUN