TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sun,Qicheng
AU  - Wang,Guangqian
TI  - Mechanics of granular matter
T2  - Chinese science today
SN  - 9781845646448 (hardback)
U1  - 530.4 23
PY  - 2013///'
CY  - Southampton, Boston
PB  - WIT Press
KW  - Granular materials
N1  - 
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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