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Non-Linearity and Breakdown in Soft Condensed Matter

Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Calcutta, India 1–9 December 1993

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1994

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  1. Kamal K. Bardhan
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  2. Bikas K. Chakrabarti
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  3. Alex Hansen
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 437)

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Table of contents (23 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Introduction

    • E. Guyon
    Pages 1-4

  3. Decompaction, fluidisation and segregation in a 2D sandpile

    • J. Duran, T. Mazozi, J. Rajchenbach, E. Clément
    Pages 5-17

  4. Granular flow: Some experimental results

    • Daniel Bideau, F. X. Riguidel, A. Hansen, G. Ristow, X. I. Wu, K. J. Måløy et al.
    Pages 18-27

  5. Density waves in granular flow

    • H. J. Herrmann, E. Flekkøy, K. Nagel, G. Peng, G. Ristow
    Pages 28-39

  6. Height fluctuations and pressure distribution in a model of random close packing of mono-size discs

    • M. K. Hari Menon
    Pages 40-46

  7. Statics and dynamics of sandpiles: Some phenomenological ideas

    • J. P. Bouchaud
    Pages 47-53

  8. Some physical properties of the Burridge-Knopoff model

    • Jean-Pierre Vilotte, Jean Schmittbuhl, Stéphane Roux
    Pages 54-77

  9. Jerky flow, stick-slip in geological materials and earthquake models

    • G. Ananthakrishna, Hema Ramachandran
    Pages 78-106

  10. Dynamics and structure of displacement fronts in two-dimensional porous media

    • Knut Jørgen Maløy, Liv Furuberg, Einar Hinrichsen, Jens Feder, Torstein Jøssang
    Pages 107-123

  11. Heterogeneous porous media: Fronts and noise

    • M. Chaouchel, N. Rakotomalala, D. Salin, B. Xu, Y. C. Yortsos
    Pages 124-133

  12. Pattern formation in particulate complex fluids: A guided tour

    • Henri Van Damme, Emmanuel Lemaire, Y. Ould, Mohamed Abdelhaye, A. Mourchid, P. Levitz
    Pages 134-150

  13. Solvable models of material breakdown

    • P. L. Leath, P. M. Duxbury
    Pages 151-170

  14. Fracture and other breakdown phenomena in disordered solids

    • Bikas K. Chakrabarti
    Pages 171-185

  15. Spring-network and finite-element models for elasticity and fracture

    • A. Jagota, S. J. Bennison
    Pages 186-201

  16. Ginzburg-Landau form description for steps on creep curves

    • Mulugeta Bekele, G. Ananthakrishna
    Pages 202-220

  17. Laboratory simulation of dielectric breakdown

    • L. Benguigui, P. Ron
    Pages 221-234

  18. Fracture roughness and physical implications

    • Stéphane Roux
    Pages 235-247

  19. Rock fracturing by gas loading for well stimulation

    • L. Petitjean, B. Couët
    Pages 248-260

  20. Physics of random nonlinear composites

    • P. M. Hui
    Pages 261-270
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There have been considerable advances in recent times in understanding many common material processes that are of practical importance, such as nonlinear response, fracture, breakdown, earthquakes, packing, and granular flow, that are of immense practical importance. This has been mainly due to new applications of statistical physics, including percolation theory, fractal concepts and self-organized criticality. This collection of articles brings together research in those closely allied fields. It deals with problems in material science involving random geometries and nonlinearity at a mesoscopic scale, where local disorder and nonlinearity influence the global behaviour of cracks, for example, and problems where randomness in time evolution is as crucial as the geometry itself.

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