Publication Date:
1995-07-28
Description:
Experimental observations and numerical simulations of the large force inhomogeneities present in stationary bead packs are presented. Forces much larger than the mean occurred but were exponentially rare. An exactly soluble model reproduced many aspects of the experiments and simulations. In this model, the fluctuations in the force distribution arise because of variations in the contact angles and the constraints imposed by the force balance on each bead in the pile.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Liu, C H -- Nagel, S R -- Schecter, D A -- Coppersmith, S N -- Majumdar, S -- Narayan, O -- Witten, T A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1995 Jul 28;269(5223):513-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17842361" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
