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The field of granular physics has burgeoned since its development
in the late 1980s, when physicists first began to use statistical
mechanics to study granular media. They are prototypical of complex
systems, manifesting metastability, hysteresis and bistability, and
a range of other fascinating phenomena. This 2007 book is a
wide-ranging account of developments in granular physics, and lays
out the foundations of the statics and dynamics of granular
physics. It covers a wide range of subfields, ranging from
fluidisation to jamming, and these are modelled through a range of
computer simulation and theoretical approaches. Written with an eye
to pedagogy and completeness, this book will be valuable asset to
any researcher in this field. The book also contains contributions
from Professor Sir Sam Edwards, with Dr Raphael Blumenfeld,
Professor Isaac Goldhirsch and Professor Philippe Claudin.
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).
The field of granular physics has burgeoned since its development
in the late 1980s, when physicists first began to use statistical
mechanics to study granular media. They are prototypical of complex
systems, manifesting metastability, hysteresis and bistability, and
a range of other fascinating phenomena. This 2007 book is a
wide-ranging account of developments in granular physics, and lays
out the foundations of the statics and dynamics of granular
physics. It covers a wide range of subfields, ranging from
fluidisation to jamming, and these are modelled through a range of
computer simulation and theoretical approaches. Written with an eye
to pedagogy and completeness, this book will be valuable asset to
any researcher in this field. The book also contains contributions
from Professor Sir Sam Edwards, with Dr Raphael Blumenfeld,
Professor Isaac Goldhirsch and Professor Philippe Claudin.
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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