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Built on sand : the science of granular materials /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Guyon, Etienne (Author), Delenne, Jean-Yves (Author), Radjaï, Farhang (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : The MIT Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Granular materials.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1: Grains, Seeds, and Powders
  • A Close Look
  • Counting Grains
  • Measuring Grains
  • 2: Grain Production
  • Making the Small from the Large: Ancient History
  • Making the Large from the Small: General Remarks on Aggregation
  • Sorting Operations
  • 3: Piles of Grains
  • The Archetype: Billiard Balls
  • Ordered Packings
  • Disorder in Granular Materials
  • 4: The Packing Fraction
  • The Limits of Packing Fraction
  • Particle Shape Effects
  • Critical Packing Fraction
  • Dilatancy
  • 5: Making Contacts
  • Two Grains, One Contact
  • Friction between Two Grains
  • Elasticity of a Packing
  • The Propagation of Sound
  • Plasticity of Packing
  • Localization of Deformation
  • 6: Manifestations of Disorder
  • Scales of Disorder
  • Percolation, or Ariadne's Thread
  • Large-scale Disorder in Electrical Contacts
  • Percolation in Mechanics
  • 7: Force Chains
  • Visible Forces
  • Weak vs. Strong Forces
  • Granular Texture
  • The Arching Effect
  • Pressure under a Pile of Sand
  • Pressure in a Silo
  • 8: Granular Flows
  • Grain Inertia
  • Flow Regimes
  • Hourglass and Silo
  • Slope Angle
  • Vibrated Piles
  • Segregation
  • 9: From Sandcastles to Clay Towers
  • Fluid between Grains
  • Surface Tension
  • The Physics of Sandcastles
  • Water in the Soil
  • Earth Structures
  • 10: Sticky Grains
  • Sintered Materials
  • Preparing Sintered Material
  • Concrete
  • Natural Consolidated Media
  • The Mechanics of Granular Composites
  • 11: Fluids in Granular Materials
  • Granular Matter Is Full of Voids
  • Permeability
  • Unsaturated Media
  • Miscible Liquids
  • Modifying Permeability
  • 12: Grains in a Fluid
  • A Little Organization!
  • A Sphere Falls
  • Interacting Particles
  • Sedimentation
  • Agitated Particles
  • The Viscosity of a Suspension
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Image Credits
  • Index