ABSTRACT

This volume contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Micromechanics of Granular Media, Powders and Grains 2005. Powders and Grains is an international scientific conference held every 4 years that brings together engineers and physicists interested in the micromechanics of granular media.The book is a guide to the hotte

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3 Micromechanics and macroscopic behavior

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Scaling in granular materials

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4 Quasistatic shear

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Granulence

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5 Biaxial and triaxial tests

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6 Sound transmission and conduction

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7 Compaction

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8 Jamming

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2 Continuum modeling – numerics

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2 Cohesive flow

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3 Humidity and cohesion

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4 Sintering, aggregation and granulation

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2 Instability and geomaterials

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Author index

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Table of Contents

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Preface

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2 Surface flow and avalanches

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3 Channel and chute flow

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How sidewalls influence granular flows

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4 Hoppers and silos

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5 Flow around obstacles

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Dust and sand transport on Mars

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A simple model of sediment transport

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2 Fluidized beds, conveying, bubbles

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3 Suspensions

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Settling of particles in liquids

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4 Saturated granular matter

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dimensional turbulence in granular gases

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2 Kinetic theory

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3 Vibrated granular media

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4 Impact and splash functions

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Dynamics of a vibrated dimer

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4 Crushable grains and fracture

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Numerical simulation of a rock crusher

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Central and oblique impacts of spheres