Screen LibraryBuilt on sand : the science of granular mateials /
"Granular materials are composed of macroscopic particles, not molecules, and yet they can assemble in disordered configurations, such is present in glass, and they exhibit both fluid-like and solid-like behaviors. This book gives a broad introduction to granular materials, a fast-developing fi...
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The MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | [2020] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English French |
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| Summary: |
"Granular materials are composed of macroscopic particles, not molecules, and yet they can assemble in disordered configurations, such is present in glass, and they exhibit both fluid-like and solid-like behaviors. This book gives a broad introduction to granular materials, a fast-developing field that impacts most science and engineering disciplines, describing the different types and origins of grains, natural and fabricated, and explaining the physical properties of a "pile" of grains. All the physical concepts that have been investigated during the last thirty years are described and illustrated in simple terms"-- |
| Item Description: |
Originally published in 2017 as: Matière en grains. Translated from the French. |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 256 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-246) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780262043700 026204370X |
| Index Number: | TA418 |
| CLC: | TB383 |
| Call Number: | TB383/G989 |
| Contents: | Grains, seeds, and powders -- Grain production -- Piles of grains -- The packing fraction -- Making contacts -- Manifestations of disorder -- Force chains -- Granular flow -- From sand castles to clay towers -- Sticky grains -- Fluids in granular materials -- Grains in a fluid. |