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Microstructures and Mechanical Properties of Dense Particle Gels: Microstructural Characterization
Iwan Schenker, Frank T. Filser, Tomaso Aste +1
The macroscopic mechanical properties of densely packed coagulated colloidal particle gels strongly depend on the local arrangement of the powder particles on length scales of a fe…
Quantification of the Heterogeneity of Particle Packings
Iwan Schenker, Frank T. Filser, Tomaso Aste +2
The microstructure of coagulated colloidal particles, for which the inter-particle potential is described by the DLVO theory, is strongly influenced by the particles' surface poten…
A deductive statistical mechanics approach for granular matter
T. Aste, T. Di Matteo
We introduce a deductive statistical mechanics approach for granular materials which is formally built from few realistic physical assumptions. The main finding is an universal beh…
Onset of mechanical stability in random packings of frictional spheres
Melissa Jerkins, Matthias Schröter, Harry L. Swinney +3
Using sedimentation to obtain precisely controlled packings of noncohesive spheres, we find that the volume fraction of the loosest mechanically stable packing is in…
Volume fluctuations and geometrical constraints in granular packs
Tomaso Aste
Structural organization and correlations are studied in very large packings of equally sized acrylic spheres, reconstructed in three-dimensions by means of X-ray computed tomograph…
The hierarchical properties of contact networks in granular packings
T. Aste, T. J. Senden
The topological structure resulting from the network of contacts between grains (contact network) is studied for very large samples of disorderly-packed monosized spheres with dens…