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Book SynopsisPowders 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 (Imp
Table of Contents1. Relaxational Dynamics, Avalanches, and Disorder in Real Sandpiles.- 2. Computer Simulations of Granular Materials.- 3.Pattern Formation and Complexity in Granular Flows.- 4.The Role of Entropy in the Specification of a Powder.- 5.Discrete Mechanics.- 6. Mixing and Segregation Mechanisms in Particle Flow.- 7.Physics of Hard-Sphere Colloidal Suspensions.- 8. Deterministic Micromechanical Modelling of Failure or Flow in Discrete Planes of Densely Packed Particle Assemblies: Introductory Principles.
