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Granular Matter

An Interdisciplinary Approach

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Anita Mehta

    1. Interdisciplinary Research Center in Advanced Materials, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Relaxational Dynamics, Avalanches, and Disorder in Real Sandpiles

    • Anita Mehta
    Pages 1-33

  3. Computer Simulations of Granular Materials

    • G. C. Barker
    Pages 35-83

  4. Pattern Formation and Complexity in Granular Flows

    • R. P. Behringer, G. William Baxter
    Pages 85-119

  5. The Role of Entropy in the Specification of a Powder

    • S. F. Edwards
    Pages 121-140

  6. Discrete Mechanics

    • Peter K. Haff
    Pages 141-160

  7. Mixing and Segregation Mechanisms in Particle Flow

    • J. Bridgwater
    Pages 161-193

  8. Physics of Hard-Sphere Colloidal Suspensions

    • P. Bartlett, W. van Megen
    Pages 195-257

  9. Deterministic Micromechanical Modelling of Failure or Flow in Discrete Planes of Densely Packed Particle Assemblies: Introductory Principles

    • M. J. Adams, B. J. Briscoe
    Pages 259-291

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 293-306
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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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  • Interdisciplinary Research Center in Advanced Materials, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK

    Anita Mehta

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